Femi Adesina, the former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that the dead never asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for a “dime.”
He said that the prior president had never been corrupt.
According to the former presidential spokesman, Mele Kyari, the former managing director of the NNPCL Group, told him about this.
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In a lengthy piece written in Buhari’s honor, Adesina claimed that the late president’s friends covered his children’s tuition.
“I must stop, even though there are hundreds of stories left to tell,” Adesina said.
“How he turned down a contractor’s offer of an SUV; how he instructed Minister Babatunde Fashola to construct the Lagos/Ibadan, Enugu/Port Harcourt, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, and Second Niger Bridge expressways; how NNPCL GMD Mele Kyari informed me that Buhari never solicited a dime from the corporation, which was a gravy train for many former leaders; what the President told me following his son Yusuf’s bike accident; how his friends covered his children’s tuition; his phone conversations with Rev. Chris Okotie, Duro Onabule, and Tunji Braithwaite, among others.
“President Buhari was a man of distinction and an icon. Is perfect? Not a single one is. Even his little flaws have been buried with his bones. His excellent deeds endure.
