Senator Abaribe should be in prison for supporting Nnamdi Kanu —Adesina

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has blasted the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, for allegedly using “foul language against those in leadership”.

Adesina, in an editorial opinion on Thursday night, said Abaribe should be “cooling his feet in prison” after he “stood surety for someone bent on dismemberment of the country”.

Recall that Senator Abaribe and two others had stood as sureties for detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu before he was eventually granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja on April 25, 2017.

Abaribe had run into trouble when Kanu jumped bail the same year and bolted out of Nigeria because of alleged assassination attempt on his life in Abia in September 2017.

Adesina in an editorial piece titled, ‘Weighty Matters About Our Country’, made a veiled reference to Abaribe saying, “Some people incite violence through words or actions, thus exacerbating the security challenges we have. You wonder where they are from, and why they would further stoke a burning fire with incendiary materials.

“There is one funny Senator who talks about the mismanagement of our diversity as a country, yet he daily uses foul language against those in leadership. He stood surety for someone bent on dismemberment of the country, and when that one vanished, and he should have been cooling his feet in prison, the Senator still spews rubbish. Chief ‘mismanager’ of our diversity.

“And the President had words for him and his ilk, who exist round the country: “We are ready to arrest and prosecute all persons inciting violence through words or action. Our resolve for a peaceful, united and one Nigeria remains resolute and unwavering…

“The seeds of violence are planted in people’s heads through words. Reckless utterances of a few have led to losses of many innocent lives and destruction of properties.””

The Presidential aide also said the Federal Government must have biceps and must be strong, and show strength for it not to be taken for a ride or become “a king sitting on an empty throne.”