Femi
Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari,
says when his principal returns to the country, “filthy dreamers” will hide
their
heads in shame.
Buhari left
for the United Kingdom for medical follow-up on May 7.
In a piece
on Friday, Adesina described the filthy dreamers as those who “despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities”.
He said as
spokesman of the president, he would never respond to such people.
“President
Buhari has been indisposed since the beginning of the year. It is human, and
presidents, despite their elevated status, remain human,” Adesina wrote.
“If there is
anybody who considers himself 100 percent healthy, or who bears what William
Shakespeare calls ‘a charmed life’, let that person stand up to be identified.
All mortals are doomed to sickness, they can recover, and they can die.
“That is the
truth that has been internalised by millions of people praying for the recovery
of our President. And that is where the shallowness, vacuousness, and
hollowness of people who wish the President dead, and carry unfounded rumours,
is on stark display.
“Filthy
dreamers. They speak evil of dignities, and despise dominion. But we forgive
them, for they know not what they do. When President Buhari returns (as God
would make him do) where would they hide their faces? In shame.”
He likened
Shimei, a character in the Bible, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whom
he described as “evil wishers” who spend “their days conjecturing tragedy for
leadership”.
“David had
succeeded Saul as king of Israel. And Shimei was from the family of Saul (read,
People’s Democratic Party, PDP). Shimei hadn’t forgotten the bloody nose the
family of Saul got, when the kingship was taken away from them, and given to
David. So when the latter got into a time of travail, no pity at all from
people still smarting from bloody noses,” Adesina said.
“The All
Progressives Congress (APC), inspired by Muhammadu Buhari, halted the 60-year
pipe dream of PDP at the polls in 2015. Has the latter forgotten? No, they
won’t forget till forever.
“But so much
is the animus, the antipathy towards the president that they wish him dead.
While millions of Nigerians are praying, some elements are rejoicing, and
imagining evil. But they forget: man is not God, and Jehovah always has the
final say. The descendants of Shimei need to learn vital lessons from their
forebear.
“President
Buhari has tolerated people who have called him all sorts of names in the past
two years. If he didn’t move against them directly, he could have allowed many
Abishais to move against them, ‘and take off their heads.’
“But not our
president, a reformed democrat, a pious man, who has resolved to leave the
people suffused by hatred unto God.”
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