Wailers Should Find Vocation In 2021 – Presidency


Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has urged those he described as “wailing wailers,” not to distract the government with their criticism in 2021.

He implored them to pipe down and let the president Muhammadu Buhari administration concentrate on  governance and execution of projects it has embarked on.

Ekohotblog reports that Adesina, in an article marking the new year, advised the government those who are critical of the government to get something doing and take a break in 2021.

The presidential aide said that the administration of Buhari will continue its infrastructural development in every party of the country in 2021.

He averred that 2021 is the year of hard work, to deliver on the major projects by next year, noting that it’s a year for cessation of wailing and not continuation of it.

“It is the year to calm down. A year for wailing wailers to find a vocation, and allow government to concentrate, and deliver on projects at hand,” he added.

While the controversial aide admitted that the country was enmeshed in plethora of challenges, he said what the government needed was not sustained diatribe and criticism but praise and encouragement to do better.

“Yes, there are challenges: security, economy, improving quality of lives. Lack of jobs. Inflation.. And many others. But is it the year to wail? No. We should rather hail, encourage government to do better, and engender better standards of living for Nigerians,” he said.

He, however, explained that he was not dissuading citizens from criticising the government in 2021, he was only saying that such civil deed should not become a full time job.

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“They will criticize the rail project of the government, calling it white elephant, but will be the first to hop on the trains, taking selfies in it. Wailers, calm down.

“Please, ‘be calming down’ in 2021,” the presidential aide said, adding that this would enable the government function with less distractions.