Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has disclosed that the \u201cEnemy of the State,\u201d who leaked the president\u2019s speech on Monday is \u201calready answering for his evil action\u201d.<\/p>\n
The social media had been inundated with a draft copy of the President\u2019s speech a few hours before his address to the nation on Monday.<\/p>\n
The document, though marred with typos and other errors, showed some sameness to the one which was later read by the President.<\/p>\n
However, the striking difference was that the draft copy stated that the lockdown in Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States would be lifted on Saturday, May 2.<\/p>\n
But Buhari in his address later that evening said the gradual easing of lockdown in the three places would be effective Monday, May 4.<\/p>\n
Reacting on Friday through a column, \u2018From The Inside\u2019, which was published on his website, www.femiadesina.com, Adesina said \u201can Enemy of the State struck in Nigeria on Monday\u201d, adding that the person was guilty of \u201csabotage\u201d and did not wish the country well.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cI took a look at the circulating document, and within one minute, I knew that it was a rogue copy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a few phone calls to those of us involved with the script, right from origination, which was from outside the Presidency, to final editing, which I did, and the conclusion was easy to reach.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho would do such a thing, except an Enemy of the State, someone who wants to ridicule the government?<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he forgot that in these days of technology, almost everything leaves a trail. Before the end of that evening, computer evidence had narrowed down the suspect, and he was already answering for his evil action.\u201d<\/p>\n
The President\u2019s spokesperson lamented that some media houses (not The PUNCH<\/em>) fell for the \u201csinister\u201d motive of the person as they published the \u2018May 2\u2019 date contrary to the \u2018May 4\u2019 date announced by his principal during the broadcast.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a way we release information from the media office of the President. And the media knows it. If a presidential speech was to be given ahead, there would be an embargo on it for a particular time. The circulating copy bore no embargo, yet they fell for it and got embarrassed by publishing inaccurate information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has disclosed that the \u201cEnemy of the State,\u201d who leaked the president\u2019s speech on Monday is \u201calready answering for his evil action\u201d. The social media had been inundated with a draft copy of the President\u2019s speech a few hours before his address […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2419,1839,2588,382],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-femi-adesina","tag-leaked-speech","tag-muhammadu-buhari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}