As Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, prepares to leave his position on May 29, he reflects on his time in office and a conversation he had with the Sultan of Sokoto during his first week on the job.
In an article titled “THE FINAL GALLOP HOME,” Adesina disclosed that the Sultan of Sokoto had expressed his views on the job of a media adviser, which he claimed does not attract appreciation from Nigerians, as seen with the treatment of previous occupants of the position.
However, the Sultan assured Adesina that his tenure would be different from his predecessors.
Despite some Nigerians expressing their displeasure with his impending exit from the position on May 29, Adesina is determined not to let the “wailers” get to him.
Recalling the conversation he had with the Sultan of Sokoto, Adesina said, “In my very first week as Media Adviser, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, had visited the Villa, and met me along the walkway to the President’s office.
We had been acquainted for many years before then, and he usually called me by my email. And he said: ‘Kulikulii, you have come to do a very thankless job. That’s the way it has been for your predecessors, but with you, it won’t be so.’
And I’ve not stopped saying amen to that prayer for 8 years, and no low person will stop me from that amen chorus”.