The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has said that Nigerians are looking for a talkative president who will talk till they’re tired of him.
Adesina made the comment during a recent interview with Radio Continental when he was asked why Buhari had not issued a statement on attacks being carried out by Fulani herdsmen around the country.
“Maybe you didn’t hear the President when he spoke. When the Agatu crisis happened, he decried it and said he was going to ask for security briefing on it and something will be done,” he said.
“And when we were in Qatar, Aljazeera did an interview with the President, and the matter came up and the President spoke on it. He said this herdsmen and farmers clash is as old as time and it is endemic in the country. He said that something would be done about it.
“The Federal government, the state governments and even the local governments will consult, and that was how this ranches idea came out. What I see in Nigeria is that at times people want a talkative President that is speaking every day and he will speak to a point that people are even tired of hearing him.
“The Presidency is the last point in any country but in Nigeria, they want to make it the first point of comment. No, it should not be like that,” he added.
Adesina had earlier said that Nigerians should learn to stop complaining so much.
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Mr Adesina, do you really believe that the operations of today’s herds men are the same as the past ones, or that the herder-farmer conflict of today is what it used to be? When did herders start to sack villages burning Churches, houses, killing defenseless people and occupying the sacked territories with impunity as they do today? When did they start to remain in the wetter parts of the country as they do today instead of moving north-south and south-north, following the weather as they used to do? Are you advising the President correctly on matters like this or are you there to sing his praise, making him believe that all is well and normal, “so why waste your precious words”?