Browsing: Femi Adesina

Speaking when the outgoing Chairman of the State House Press Corps, Kehinde Amodu, led the newly-elected Chairman of the Corps, Ubale Musa, on a courtesy visit to him and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, at the State House on Friday, Adesina said it was noteworthy that the election of officers into the Corps was done in a transparent manner

The second clarification. Let nobody, particularly on social media, begin to insinuate that Femi Adesina is at war with Reuben Abati, his immediate predecessor as presidential spokesman. This piece you are beginning to read is not about Abati as a person, it is about his spiritual ideas and convictions, which I think need some appraisal, as they are rather unspiritual. Abati and myself have been professional colleagues for almost 30 years, we have a lot of mutual friends, and know how to reach each other when necessary. So, this is not a case of Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman being at war with Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesman. What for?

On what he described as “this special birthday anniversary”, President Buhari said he recalls, with fond memories, his long term relationship with the elder statesman, when he served as Minister of Petroleum between 1984 and 1985

The statement said the allegation was not worth the paper on which it was written “as anybody can wake from a troubled sleep, and say anything”.
The statement reads: “President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, claims there is ‘now a government within the government of President Buhari’ which has allegedly seized the apparatus of executive powers to pursue a nefarious agenda

The decision of the hawks at Aso Rock Presidential Villa to hide the real health situation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the public, pretending that the man was well, and blocking then Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, from taking over power as acting president landed the nation in darkness for many months until the National Assembly saved the day with its Doctrine of Necessity