Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, has chastised Bishop Matthew Kukah for his recent remarks about the Buhari administration.
While addressing the issues raised by Kukah, Adesina stated that his principal has done well for the country.
He insisted that the cleric’s Easter message demonstrated his partisanship.
He said;
He is rather too partisan. If you look at those things he mentioned, they don’t do good to Father Kukah’s intellectual posture. He’s somebody that we have always admired for his intellectual bent but his opinion has been coloured by politics.
He talked about selling presidential fleets, was that ever promised? We know that in 2015, there were a rash of promises made that even the candidate did not know about. So, how can he start claiming that he promised that?
Adesina went on to say that calling for total eradication of corruption was unrealistic because it was an impossible task.
He explained that even China, which executes people for corruption, has not been able to defeat it.
He did, however, note that it can be curtailed and minimized, which Buhari has done successfully.
Then, bringing back our Chibok girls, how many of those girls were taken away in 2014 and how many have been recovered? He should praise the government for recovering a large number of the girls. The President did his very best bringing more than 100 girls back, he added.
On allegations of nepotism against Buhari’s government, Adesina said:
The thing about critics is that they hear themselves only, they don’t hear alternate voices. In 2018 or 2019, we came out with a check list of all appointments made under President Buhari nationwide. Do you know the state that had the highest? Ogun State; the second highest state is Imo state; and Katsina where the President comes from is in number five or six. But people like Father Kukah and other critics don’t listen to others, they only listen to themselves and nothing else matters to them.