Femi Adesina, former presidential spokesman during the time of Muhammadu Buhari has pushed back at his principal’s critics.
Buhari is believed in some quarters to be bigot and nepotist.
Adesina replied those who share those view in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
He said those perceptions about the former President was a misconception, saying “those who call him nepotist, those who call him bigot don’t know him, a man who will never seek to impose his own religion on you and will respect your own religion.
“I devoted a good part of my book to that. When my mother died in 2013, I invited him to the Commendation Service in Lagos, he was not President then, he flown all the way from Kaduna to Lagos to attend a Christian programme. He stayed throughout.
“Yet, some people will say he is a religious bigot. A bigot will never enter a worship house that is not his own religion. And they say he is a nepotist, I have never seen it.”
