Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
Femi Adesina, has knocked the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, for
allegedly using “foul language against those in leadership”.
Adesina, in a Facebook piece on Thursday night, said Abaribe
should be “cooling his feet in prison” after he “stood surety for someone bent
on dismemberment of the country”.
The Senator and two others had stood as sureties for
detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu before he was granted
bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja on April 25, 2017.
Abaribe had run into trouble when Kanu jumped bail the same
year and fled Nigeria because of the alleged extrajudicial attempt on his life
in Abia in September 2017.
The detained IPOB leader is facing terrorism-related charges
before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja and the case had
been adjourned to October 21, 2021, for continuation of hearing.
Adesina in the piece titled, ‘Weighty Matters About Our
Country’, made a veiled reference to Abaribe saying, “Some people incite
violence through words or actions, thus exacerbating the security challenges we
have. You wonder where they are from, and why they would further stoke a
burning fire with incendiary materials.
“There is one funny Senator who talks about the
mismanagement of our diversity as a country, yet he daily uses foul language
against those in leadership. He stood surety for someone bent on dismemberment
of the country, and when that one vanished, and he should have been cooling his
feet in prison, the Senator still spews rubbish. Chief ‘mismanager’ of our
diversity.
“And the President had words for him and his ilk, who exist
round the country: “We are ready to arrest and prosecute all persons inciting
violence through words or action. Our resolve for a peaceful, united and one
Nigeria remains resolute and unwavering…
“The seeds of violence are planted in people’s heads through
words. Reckless utterances of a few have led to losses of many innocent lives
and destruction of properties.””
The Presidential aide also said the Federal Government must
have biceps and must be strong, and show strength for it not to be taken for a
ride or become “a king sitting on an empty throne.”
Abaribe, who represents Abia South in the red chamber, was
deputy governor to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from May 29, 1999 till March 2003.
The Senator has been one of the vocal voices from the
South-East and has been unsparing about his criticism of the regime of the
President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
In a television interview on Tuesday, the Senator had
lamented that the people of the South-East have been grossly marginalised and
unfairly treated by the All Progressives Congress government.
He had said the Buhari regime might crush secessionist
agitators but it would be difficult for the government to crush the ideology
until the current administration address the root cause of the problem and
embrace dialogue.
Abaribe had also said aside from IPOB, and the Movement for
the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, there are more than 30
separatist organisations in the South-East zone of the country.
When asked whether he was a supporter of IPOB, Abaribe had
said, “I am a supporter of the cries of our people against injustice…I stand
with my people.
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and his colleagues in the red
chamber had flayed Abaribe over the media interview.
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