National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., has lambasted Femi Adesina, the Media Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, for attacking former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
According to him, Adesina’s attack on Obasanjo showed he lacks respect for the elders.
TGNews had reported that Adesina aasked Obasanjo to mind his utterances in a piece he titled, ‘Nigeria’s Unity And All The Iberiberism’.
Obasanjo had in a recent letter to President Buhari, highlighted how the Federal Government paved the way for the crisis between farmers and herders in the country.
Reacting to Adesina,s comment, Bamgbose, a 2023 presidential hopeful, said media aides to the president always behave like mercenaries.
He said, “When has it become a crime to show concern for the wellbeing of his nation. Before the 2015 Presidential elections, Femi Adesina was using the Daily Sun to lambast Jonathan and educate Nigerians on the need to bring Buhari on board as President.”
“Reuben Abati who was Media Aide to Jonathan then never for once asked him to keep quiet. The same applied to when Buhari with others protested and asked Jonathan to resign for his inability to curb the wave of insecurity.
“Femi Adesina should have known that Obasanjo is a more well-grounded Nationalist than Buhari. He is far more detribalized than Buhari.
“His administration was a hundred times better than that of Buhari. Obasanjo remains the best Nigeria President that created an enabling environment for the empowerment of youths.
“He brought in GSM that has helped in employing and empowering millions of our youths in the country. Obasanjo is more committed to the unity of Nigeria than Buhari.
“Buhari won’t have had the opportunity of becoming the President without the tacit support of Obasanjo. One will urge Buhari to caution his aides.
“How old was Femi Adesina when the civil war broke out in 1967 that he seems to know more of what happened? What gut did he have to caution Obasanjo? Let him watch his utterances because his days are numbered in the State House.”
