The Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina has asked ‘What else does President Muhammadu Buhari know, that people don’t know about?
Adesina asked this question in an article he wrote on the recent sermon General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Worldwide, Pastor William Kumuyi gave during a crusade in Abuja.
Adesina in the article recalled in October 2018, when Pastor Kumuyi was in the Aso Villa chapel to commemorate the Independence anniversary of the country and how he tried to introduce Pastor Kumuyi to President Buhari but to his amazement, the President knows who Kumuyi is.
He said: It was my duty to speak to President Muhammadu Buhari that Pastor Kumuyi was in town, and could he please receive him in a courtesy visit? I did, and while I was trying to tell the President who the impending visitor was, the man amazed me when he said: “I know him very well. Is he not the mathematician?”
What else does this President know, that people don’t know about? He received Pastor Kumuyi and his wife in the residence the next day, and it was such an endearing session, concluded with prayers. Bigot? Those who say so should look for another person. Not the Buhari that I know.
Adesina in the article lampooned those Nigerian preachers who use the situation of the country to fan ember of violence.
Saying, unlike Kumuyi who peaches hope and encouragement ‘what we hear from most preachers today is talk of doomsday, encouraging their members to hate the country and its leadership, give negative prophecies that keep falling flat on their faces.
Siting example EndSARS protest Adesina said some of these preachers encourage hatred, dissenting, and civil disobedience.
He said: ‘During the last EndSARS campaign, many preachers were seen, egging the protesters on, and giving them tacit support. And when anarchy flared, those preachers went underground. Not a word did you hear from them, suing for peace and end to bloodshed and destruction.’
Adesina further said that stigmatization and stereotyping are parts of the problem Nigeria is facing today advised that ‘If only we can listen to people like Kumuyi, then we will have a better country. “Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons,” Napoleon Bonaparte said. And I extrapolate it to say: let Nigeria have good preachers in the mould of WF Kumuyi, and she will have good citizens.’
