Some Nigerians Want To Drag Buhari By The Nose - Femi Adesina

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has chided Nigerians who are still pestering his principal for a presidential media chat after his previous broadcasts on the Coronavirus pandemic.

The presidential spokesman insinuated that such calls were akin to leading the President by the nose.

He stated this during a call-in session on a live programme on Nigeria Info FM, during which Citizen Ibikunle implored the presidential spokesman to “encourage Mr President (Buhari) to come out and speak to us (Nigerians)” through a press chat with the president.

In his reaction, Adesina told the caller “not to continue to sound like a broken record” and moved to shot down any brewing demand for another address from the president since he has addressed the nation thrice following widespread clamour across social platforms in the last two months.

His words, “When this COVID thing began, ‘president should talk to us, the president should talk to us,’ he has had three national broadcasts within a month, what else do they want? What else do they want?

“People think because either you elected a president or you didn’t elect him, you must lead your president by the nose. It doesn’t happen.

“Because you elected a man then you begin to order him around. The president would do whatever is good for the country any given time.”

Adesina maintained that Buhari has the right not to hold presidential media chat like his predecessors because it is a matter of style.

“The fact that some other Presidents in the past did what is called the media chat, does not mean every President must do it.

“It is a matter of style if this President decides not to have a media chat like his predecessors, it is his right,” said the presidential spokesman.