Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has accused Nigerians of not encouraging the President to do more in his efforts at fighting insecurity, revamping the economy, fighting corruption and taking the country out of the woods, IgbereTV reports
Adesina who made the allegations in an article on his Facebook column ‘From the Inside,’ published on Thursday, also lampooned the Nigerian media of not playing up the achievements of the President as much as they do when reporting insecurity and attacks by insurgents.
In the article entitled ‘The story that didn’t hug the headlines’, Adesina said Nigerians and the media’s negative reports have discouraged Buhari as his achievements have been underplayed, insisting that the President’s enemies are only happy when they criticise the failures of the government.
Adesina made reference to the recent elevation of the country’s rating on the Global Terrorism Index for 2022, sayinc that rather than giving the news the prominence it deserves, the Nigerian media relegated it to the background, but would gladly blow up story of killings by insurgents just to put the Buhari administration in a bad light
