I Don’t Respond To Wailing Wailers, Adesina Slams Ezekwesili

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, says it is not in his nature to respond those who he described as “wailing wailers” in their private capacities.

Adesina said this in a telephone interview with the Punch, while reacting to a statement credited to a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, in which she described the presidential spokesman’s recent statement as a “terribly indecorous press release.”

Adesina had issued a statement on Friday saying the reported discussion between President Muhammadu Buhari and the World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, was deliberately twisted by those who he said specialised in such acts.

He had said, “Ignorant and mischievous people were making it seem that Buhari’s position was a calculated attempt to give the North an unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria.”

But Ezekwesili blasted the presidential spokesman, saying his response worsened the issue.

When asked to respond to the former minister’s remarks, Adesina said: “I don’t respond to wailing wailers in their private capacities.”