Femi Adesina, spokesperson to former President Muhammadu
Buhari, yesterday, disclosed that the last administration suffered a lot of
propaganda due to the number of enemies around him.
He alleged that some of the enemies that ganged up against
Buhari included defeated members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a
section of the Church, who felt bad because a Christian incumbent President was
defeated and some Buhari loyalists, whose expectation was never met.
Adesina, who spoke at a media chat organised by the
Association of Veteran Journalists in Osun State, held in Osogbo, said the
former President did not only curb corruption but also fought insecurity to a
standstill.
The former Presidential aide said: “There were people who
naturally were against Buhari’s government from the beginning. I identified
three different sets of people that were anti-Buhari. Firstly, the PDP, which
is natural, secondly, a part of the Church, who felt the one defeated was
Christian, and Buhari is a Muslim. So they thought they should use the pulpit
to explore evil against the administration and those, who were with Buhari in
the beginning but whose expectations were not met and then they crossed over
and became enemies with the administration.
“So, all those people, from day one till the end, fought the
administration.”
He, however, explained that as the image maker of the
President, he inherited “collateral damage”, as some section of the media
deliberately misquoted him for the eight years he served in office.
According to him, the media outfits deliberately intended to
set him against the members of the public just because he was serving in
government.
He said: “My biggest challenge during the eight years that I
served with President Muhammadu Buhari was the fact that a section of the media
deliberately quoted me out of context.
“I eventually grew out of it and got used to the antics.
Even while I had a television interview, it was turned upside down in the
papers deliberately to make me an enemy of the public, but I outgrew it and it
no longer affected my duty throughout my tenure.”
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