The Presidency, on Thursday, refuted claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari cancelled his trip to Ogoniland, Rivers State for the commencement oil spillage clean up exercise in the region.
It rather stated that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo represented the president at the occasion.
It will be recalled that the presidential movement to the oil rich land had been widely publicized that even the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on the eve of the trip on Wednesday made a broadcast, calling for calm and support for the president.
But at the eleventh hour Wednesday night after his advanced team had arrived Ogoniland, the president detailed his deputy to perform the ritual.
But responding to enquiries on why the president failed to appear in person, his Special Adviser on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said that he was represented at the event by his deputy.
“We all went to school. There is a difference between cancellation and being represented by someone. The president did not cancel his trip to Ogoniland. He was represented by the Vice President”, Adesina said.
Femi Adesina, on such important occasion as flagging off the cleaning of the mindless pollution of Niger Delta areas of Nigeria, apparently most Nigerians went to school and understand the symbolic cancellation of personal appearance of Mr President in view of the vacuous threat made against his personal safety.
However, only one person seems bereft of sound understanding of managing public perceptions and opinions as well as lacks proper knowledge of all his professional education from school, that person is you – Femi. Your hubris has certainly grown skyhigh. Watch your smart ass before you land on you ass.
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