Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari
on media and publicity, says the person who leaked the draft speech of the
president hours to his last nationwide broadcast, has been caught.
Buhari had addressed the nation on Monday, extending the
lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun by a week.
He also commended health workers on the frontline of the
battle against COVID-19 and adopted some of the recommendations of governors
about the pandemic.
Among the recommendations he listed for implementation are
use of face mask in public, restriction of interstate movement and imposition
of dusk to dawn curfew.
A version — full of errors — circulated on social media at
least four hours before the president eventually read what was different in
some ways from the draft.
In a piece entitled: “Enemies of the state”, Adesina said
the individual who leaked the memo had been traced and is now “paying for his
evil action”.
“President Muhammadu Buhari was to broadcast to the country
by 8 p.m, to give an update on the battle against COVID-19, and what becomes of
the lockdown that had lasted four weeks, particularly in the Federal Capital
Territory, Lagos and Ogun States. Kano was also a point of heavy interest, with
the strange deaths ravaging the state. Was it COVID-19 or not?” Adesina wrote.
“As the country waited for the President with great
expectations, a purported copy of the broadcast began to circulate on social
media from about 4 p.m. Whodunnit?
“I took a look at the circulating document, and within one
minute, I knew that it was a rogue copy. What immediately gave it away was the
paragraphing. It was completely different from the one I had been part of
producing, and which had been recorded for broadcast by the President.
“If the person that leaked the unedited draft of the
broadcast had access to more sensitive national documents, he would do the same
thing. If he cottons on information that could sell Nigeria to the enemy, he
would gladly do it. Thou art in the midst of foes, watch and pray.
“Igbo people speak of the proverbial lizard that ruined his
own mother’s funeral. That was what the hidden hostile hand did. But he forgot
that in these days of technology, almost everything leaves a trail. Before the
end of that evening, computer evidences had narrowed down the suspect, and he
was already answering for his evil action.”
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