Femi Adesina, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has urged Nigerians to “accept the President the way it is” having elected him willingly.
Adesina also said Sunday’s visit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some governors to the President in London has proven that he was not on life support machine as being rumored.
Asked on Monday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily why a video of the visit was not made to convince Nigerians that the President was fast recuperating, Adesina urged Nigerians to accept Buhari the way he is.
“It is a matter of personal style; there is no style that you can call his style, style is idiosyncrasy, it changes from person to person,” he said.
“The style of our President is what you are seeing on display and by now, few years he came, we should understand him, the kind of person he is and we should know how he differs to do things. So that is the way the President is.
“That just tells you that is the way our President is and we are the ones who elected him willingly and we have seen that this is the way he is. So let’s take him the way he is. It is already in our statement.”
While describing the visit as a goodwill move, Adesina disclosed that there would be another one very soon which, according to him, will be more broad-based.
He said: “I would say it is a goodwill visit and I’m sure in a couple of days there is going to be another one which may more broad based, but this is the first one of such visits and it was made up mainly of APC governors and the National Chairman of the party.”
Pressed further on when the President would return, he said: “We are not doctors and even if we are doctors we are not on this particular medical team, so it is those who are on this medical team that would know and once they give clean bill of health, [he will return].”