Femi Adesina: Late Abba Kyari Appeared In My Dream ‘In White Native Attire’

President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior media adviser, Femi Adesina, has said the president’s late chief of staff, Abba Kyari, appeared to him in his dream on Thursday before he died last week Friday.

Adesina said Kyari, who died of Coronavirus (COVID-19) after three weeks of contracting the disease, had come to say good bye to him in the dream.

Adesina revealed this in an opinion article published on his personal website on Friday.

He said his last moments with Kyari was on March 20 when the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, met with President Buhari at the State House.

Adesina said he sat close to Kyari and that they both exchanged pleasantries before the meeting started.

“Femi, how are you? They have said we should not shake hands again,” he responded. Rather jocularly, he extended his right foot. I touched his foot with my own, and we both laughed. Leg-shake, instead of a handshake.

“I’m not much of a dreamer. At least, not dreams with significance. Dreams come from a multitude of business, as the Good Book says, so if a man drinks a bowl of garri before going to bed, and he dreams of swimming in a pond or river, he actually started swimming right from inside that bowl of garri,” he said.

Adesina said, “On Thursday night inward Friday, I dreamt. The President and myself were in a corridor in the Presidential Villa, and he was talking with me. Suddenly, by my right, I saw a figure waiting for me to finish with the President. It was Mallam Abba, clad in his usual white native attire, with the trademark red cap. But this time, there was no flowing Agbada, which I found rather odd. He never (or rarely) appeared without the flowing robe. He was heavily bearded, another surprise, and the beard was all white. I rounded off discussion with the President, and yielded space for the Chief. I made nothing of the dream, but after he died, I shared my experience with my friend, Mallam Garba Deen Mohammed.

Adesina said he sought interpretation of his dream from a friend, Garba Mohammed, who told him that Kyari had appeared to him to say goodbye.

“He came to say goodbye to you, and you didn’t know it,” my friend said. I didn’t know till then that Garba Deen had the uncommon gift of interpretation of dreams. Well, I now know where to go the next time I dream,” he stated.