The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has revealed that he has lost good friends and family members over his decision to serve in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government.
Adesina disclosed this in his weekly Friday column: “From The Inside,” with the latest edition titled: “The good in goodbye.”
While disclosing that this edition, published elsewhere in full on this news website, will be the last but one, the Osun State born Four Square Gospel Church Pastor said despite the decision of some people to abandon him, he had no regrets serving in the Buhari Administration.
He wrote: “Yes, in serving Muhammadu Buhari, the honest Fulani man, deliberately misunderstood by some people, and who refuse to yield any ground, I’ve lost good friends, family people, brethren in the church, who couldn’t understand why I was loyal to a jihadist, a nepotist, and a Fulani herdsman.
“When I tell them the man is not that way, in fact, the very opposite of what they think, and they refuse to budge, I go my way.
“Peacefully.
“I give them a wide berth, which they deserve.”
Adesina, however, took consolation in the fact that in the places of those who decided to leave, he had made new friends.
He wrote: “But in their places, I’ve made new friends, countless, who I share the same things with.
“Love for Buhari, the patriot, the good man.
“And as I leave now, those new friends are part of the good in goodbye.”
The former Editor and Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Sun Newspaper before he was invited by Buhari to become his spokesman in 2015 said he was ready to vacate the Presidential Villa.
He said the next time he visits the seat of government, it would be as a visitor.
He wrote: “Gbam!
“My job is done, my bags are packed, and I’m ready to go.
“When I step out of the Presidential Villa on Friday, May 26, 2023, it would be the last as an insider.
“If I ever return, it would be as a visitor.
“My name would have to be first sent to the lobby station, I would go through security screening, before being granted access.
“And that is a place I’d driven in and out from freely in the past eight years.
“Yes, the only thing constant in life in change.
“I leave happily, fulfilled, and I say there’s a lot of good in goodbye.
“After this edition of From the Inside, a weekly column that ran for many years, there’ll be only one more.
“Next week, by the grace of God.
“Next time you will read from me, after a while, it would be from the outside, on another platform.
“Yes, that’s the way we roll.”