At book launch Adesina rise in defence of Buhari, urges Nigerians to pray for him

The event was a book launch by a former Presidential spokesman and gathered to give him support and speak of their experiences are other presidential spokesmen, past and present, running into three generations.

The author, Olusegun Adeniyi, former Special Adviser to late President Umaru Yar’Adua and now chairman Editorial board of This Day Newspaper decided to pen his thoughts and experiences in and outside office in a book he titled ‘Against The Run of Play’ decided to call eminent Nigerians together last Saturday at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) to have a peep into the work.

Though he came to give support to his colleague of the pen profession and senior in the office of presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, the spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari , will not any opportunity to speak up about critics of his boss who have been under the weather for a while.

To him, those Nigerians calling for the President to resign his position though are not been fair, but have the rights to express their opinions.

Adesina however maintained that the President’s health and full recovery should be the major concern for all Nigerians.

“People clamoring that the President should resign is an opinion, but it could be recalled that 15 million Nigerians elected him , so if few among such people express their opinion, which cannot override that of 15 million people who voted for him, however those expressing their opinion have right to their opinion,” he said.

Adesina urged Nigerians to keep praying for the President , ‘’God spared the President the first time, remember he said that he has never been ill as this before, but the same God that spared him will also ensure his full recovery.”

Also speaking, the presidential spokesman to Goodluck Jonathan, Ruben Abati commended the author for a job well done, saying that a book cannot be judged by the title or on the basis of the pages,” it is not professional,” he said.

While commenting on the war against corruption in Nigeria, Abati said that every Nigerian is supportive of the fight against corruption, “it is something that has to do with the collective experience.

There are also questions that have been raised which are legitimate questions about the approach, method and selectivity in the fight.”

Abati maintained that every government has a responsibility to identify its priorities and pursue them in the public interest and that as long as these priorities are for the public interest, “we cannot controvert these priorities.”