Africa Press-Nigeria:
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina on Friday explained why his boss refused to move against the duo of former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
Adesina, who gave the explanation in an article published on his website on Friday morning, said President Buhari chose to ignore the “combative, truculent, if not at times insulting” disposition of Governor Wike.
According to him, the President would have dealt with Wike and Fayose for their “anti-Buhari tendency” but he chose to tolerate them as a father of the nation.
In the article titled, ‘Wike Vindicates Buharists’, the presidential spokesman said the recent action of Governor Wike was in a “completely different direction compared to what he had always said of President Muhammadu Buhari”.
It would be recalled that the Rivers State Governor had recently praised President Buhari for the refund of the N78.9 billion spent by the state on some federal government projects in the state. He also invited the president to pay a visit to the state.
Adesina wrote: “The Wike we knew was either usually crying wolf where there was none, alleging that the Federal Government wanted to kill him, or claiming that he was not answerable to the central government at Abuja in any way, or even pontificating that the President and his political party, the All Progressives Congress, had failed the country in diverse ways.
“If not for the maturity, and the avuncular attitude of President Buhari to all state governors, it would have been easy for one to conclude that he and Wike were enemies. Forsworn ones.
