According to Femi Adesina, the former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Muhammadu Buhari, the deceased never asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for a “dime.”
During his lifetime, the former president was free of corruption, he claimed.
According to the former presidential spokesperson, Mele Kyari, the former managing director of the NNPCL Group, told him about this.
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In a long piece written in Buhari’s honor, Adesina claimed that the late president’s friends covered his kids’ tuition.
“I have to 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 requested 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 singular individual and an icon. Ideal? Men aren’t. His bones have been buried with his flaws, as minor as they are. His excellent deeds endure after his death.
