President Buhari’s visit to South-East not political, says Femi Adeshina

Femi Adeshina says President Buhari’s visit to South-East has nothing to do with politics.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has dismissed claims that President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the South-East region was for political reasons.

Adeshina, who said this yesterday during an interview on Channels TV’s programme, ‘Politics Today’, added that Ebonyi State where the president visited yesterday is governed by the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which indicates that Buhari meant well for all parts of the country regardless of the political background or affiliations.

He said, “If some people are infusing political motives, they have a right to their thoughts. As far as the President is concerned, this is a state in the country he has been invited to come on a state visit and commission some projects.”

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Adesina also denied reports that the president sidelined the South-East zone in his appointments.

“Talking about appointments from the region, if you were here today in the places where the President was received, what is just the general opinion, what they have been asking for is just ‘more.’ It is not as if we have not gotten anything, they say thank you for the ones we have but we want more.

“And if you ask people from other parts of the country, it will be the same request; it will be the same sentiment. Thank you for what you have given us, but we want more.

“So, it not only one region of the country that has issues about being under-appointed or under-represented in government, almost every region can lay claim to that,” he said.