Presidential spokesmen Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu have acquire a reputation for combativeness in the discharge of their duties as the president’s image-makers. In the past few weeks, they have been in the eye of the storm, verbally cutting, thrusting and scalding critics and opponents, most of whom they describe in unsavoury language and have promoted as enemies of the presidency.
No sooner had Mr Adesina finished taking on the Northern Elders Forum days ago, which he accused of being irritants and featherweights, than Mr Shehu charged into the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups , describing them as spoilsports of democracy.
Mr Adesina was angry and contemptuous in his response to Prof Abdullahi. Said he: “We are not surprised by this latest statement by Prof. Abdullahi, and our past position on what his group represents remains unchanged: a mere irritant and featherweight. Not only was Mr Sharif arrested, some of the protesters were also picked up, and the police insisted they would be prosecuted because their demands had become political and were designed to instigate bad blood against the government. Though public pressure led to the release of the protest leaders after two days, and the police had egg on their face, it did not dissuade Mr Shehu from opening his mouth and putting his foot in it.
Many commentators, including this column, now firmly believe that since 1999, no presidential spokesman has been more intolerant of public criticism than Mesrrs Adesina and Shehu. Their image-making job is made far more complicated and unduly difficult by the disposition, not to say indisposition, of their principal, the president.
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