Eniola Akinkuotu, AbujaThe Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), inherited a “terribly” divided country from his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, in 2015. He said Nigeria had always been divided and there was nothing special about the comments made by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. “As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, terribly divided; divided along religious lines, divided along ethnic lines; divided along language, divided hopelessly, terribly and that is the division that the President had been working at. The President’s aide said in 2015, Soyinka did not support Buhari but only tagged him as slightly better than Jonathan.

Source: Punch September 16, 2020 19:18 UTC