SAN FRANCISCO, December 09, (THEWILL) – Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has declared that only a few Nigerians are unhappy with the rearrest of the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore.
Adesina made this known as he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, while reacting to criticisms that trail the incident.
“You can’t just take the opinion of a vocal minority and then conclude that the country is in an uproar,” he said on Monday.
“When 100,000 (people) are making noise in the media – both social and traditional, you think the whole country is in an uproar.
“There are millions and millions and millions of people who are not bothered.
“When you say a lot of Nigerians, you know that all these noise may be coming from less than 100,000 Nigerians and the noise will be so loud that you think it’s the whole country; it’s a country of 198 million people,” he stressed.
The President’s spokesman also insisted that the DSS’ action was far from the desecration of the court while the Service has given an account of what transpired.
“We have had a concocted story, with concocted video or with incomplete video and then, the DSS has come out to give its own perspective and that then gives us a fairly balanced picture.”
“It still will decide on the predilection of people what to believe but if you are fair-minded, balanced, or neutral, I’m sure you’ll have a balanced perspective of what happened.
“As far as I’m concerned, if you ask my opinion, I think what happened was not a desecration of the temple of justice as being portrayed because the DSS has explained how things played out,” he said.
