Special Adviser to Nigeria’s President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has urged Nigerians to stop complaining about the current fuel scarcity and power outages in Nigeria. According to him, the country had encountered worse situations in the past, and survived.
In a recent article on his Facebook column, ‘From the Inside’ titled ‘Knock, knock, who’s there?’ Adesina disclosed that Nigerians should be patient with the current administration as the “country had gone through this hardship before and would survive the current one.”
In the article, Adesina talked about how Nigerians had encountered “similar or worse situation in the past and survived.”
He said:,”It’s obviously not the easiest of times in our country currently, what with severe fuel scarcity exacerbating the other existential challenges we have been coping with.
“In some areas, there’s no fuel, no electricity, thus translating to a severe energy crisis
“There were cases of bad fuel before in this country. We slept for days, weeks on end at petrol stations, queuing for fuel. We survived. We will survive again. Las las,” the presidential aide wrote”.
While talking furthermy he said: “But amidst it all, no fuel, no electricity, anxiety about Ukraine, general insecurity, Government continues to work. The Heavens won’t fall, and sanity would be restored. The current situation is called SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fouled Up. Normalcy will definitely return. “Be patient, my soul. Thou hath suffered worse than this.” (Thomas Holcroft).
As expected, Adesina later reeled out Buhari’s achievements in infrastructural development, and said Nigerians should look at the positive side of this administration, instead of dwelling on the negative parts, with the maxim that “it is not all doom and gloom in our country.”
