The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
Femi Adesina, says he has been receiving curses and messages from hell due to
false reports that he was against the #EndSARS protests.
Adesina, who is the President’s most senior spokesman, said
this in an article titled, ‘An Enemy of the People’ published on Thursday
evening.
He said an online medium had falsely accused him of telling
the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ignore the protests
and not give in to the demands of ‘Twitter warriors’.
The President’s spokesman said someone went ahead to post
his telephone numbers on social media which led to him receiving calls and hate
messages.
Adesina stated that he received a second round of attacks
when an old interview he had granted Channels Television on the ‘Revolution
Now’ protests was twisted to make it appear as if he was referring to the
#EndSARS protests.
The President’s spokesman thanked Channels TV for clarifying
the interview but said despite the move by the television station, the attacks
did not stop.
He wrote, “Those who wanted to, believed the television
station. A large number chose not to, and bombarded my phone lines with curses,
expletives, and messages from the pit of hell. Well, if anybody chooses to
belong to that nether region, it’s a matter of choice.
“Talking about the bombardment of my phone lines, it had
begun on Sunday. A hateful mind had published my two numbers on Twitter, urging
people to troll me. They called till the phone batteries went dead. Mum was the
word from me.”
Adesina said he never advised the President to ignore the
#EndSARS protests rocking the nation.
He stated that the online medium that published the report
did not give him a chance to respond to the allegations thereby opening him to
attacks.
Adesina claimed many people hated him because they were
envious of his position as the President’s spokesman.
He, however, said he would remain loyal to the President,
describing him as his hero.
Adesina stated, “Now, why do I think people try to demonize
those in government, and bring them down? Many reasons. Evil hearts. The heart
of man is evil, and desperately wicked. If you are in any form of elevated
position, they would love to see you fall. Man is in a fallen state, and the
more they see you bite the dust, the happier they are.
“As spokesman for the President, they have told themselves
you were lying before you opened your mouth to talk. Ask them to mention one
lie told to them in five years, and they then begin to look like fools, people
with addled minds.
“Again, envy consumes them. Why should he be presidential
spokesman, and I can’t be? Does he have two heads? Why should he be earning
that fat pay (lol, very fat, indeed, as fat as Super Dee of Africa) and I am
not the one earning it?”
Adesina said he recalled his first meeting with the Sultan
of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar, when he had just been appointed as the
President’s spokesman.
He said the monarch had forewarned him about the tedious
task of being the President’s spokesman and so he was not surprised by the
myriad of challenges he had faced.
Adesina added, “I had known him long before then, and he
calls me Kulikulii, which is my email address, which I’d chosen for some comic
relief.
“The Sultan said on that day: ‘Kulikulii, you have come to
do a most difficult job, a thankless job. See what happened to those before
you. That is the way people will want you to end. But if the work was thankless
for others, for you, it won’t be so.’
“The Sultan was prophesying, and I said a resounding amen,
thanked him, and left. I’ve not forgotten that encounter, and sure won’t.”
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