The Special Adviser to President
Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has faulted recent claims
made by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the All
Progressives Congress, APC-led government.
The PDP’s National Publicity
Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan had, in a statement on Sunday accused President
Buhari of corruption over the fuel subsidy regime of his government.
The party also asked the
President to submit himself for an independent inquest into his handling of the
N1.4 trillion oil subsidy fund.
Responding to the statement while
being interviewed on Channels Television, Adesina said he would have questioned
the sanity of Ologbondiyan if he hadn’t known him well enough following the
allegations made.
He stated that PDP after 16 years
of presiding over the affairs of the country, “is playing it all wrong and it
is crying wolf where there is none”.
The presidential spokesman
described the comments as laughable and ridiculous, adding that the allegations
were alien to the government.
“When you introduced this topic,
you needed to have seen the laughter, the uproar that came from me. I laughed
so much I almost tumbled from my chair because it is very ridiculous and
laughable.
“I looked at my friend and
colleague Kola Ologboniyan speaking, if not that I know him well because we are
tribesmen, by tribesmen I mean from the media constituency. If not that I have
known him for some time, I would have said: “is codeine or tramadol at work?
Because those allegations are simply ridiculous and laughable.
“There are certain things that are
characteristic of a government and by now, three years into this government,
people know what is characteristic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration and
all those things that came from the PDP spokesman are alien to this government,
completely.”
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