Shettima tackles Fani- Kayode on campaign, Chibok girls

The media aide to the governor, Isa Gusau, in an interaction with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said the state government will not join issues with Fani-Kayode who he likened to an infant.“We all know that going into an exchange with an infant is like having a dialogue with a blind, deaf and dumb, this […]

The media aide to the governor, Isa Gusau, in an interaction with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said the state government will not join issues with Fani-Kayode who he likened to an infant.
“We all know that going into an exchange with an infant is like having a dialogue with a blind, deaf and dumb, this is why it is thoughtless for any serious minded person to exchange words with Femi Fani Kayode. Someone like Governor Kashim Shettima has too many serious issues he is competently handling with patriotism as a result of which he was not only exonerated but also commended by a presidential fact-finding committee on the missing Chibok schoolgirls that was set up by the same Presidency Kayode works for.”
He said Shettima has received a commendation for his efforts in ensuring the release of the school girls and when he secured admissions into an international school for those of them that escaped and granted them scholarships.
Shettima’s media aide noted that what Fani-Kayode said was “false”, maintaining that given his antecedents, Fani-Kayode is likely to reverse himself in the near future.
“Governor Shettima was laughing when he read Femi Fani- Kayode’s statement, it provided him a little comic relief at a time we are all in agony following Saturday’s bomb attacks in Maiduguri. We are not worried because it is only a matter of time, we are sure that in the near future, sooner than we probably expect, the same Femi Fani-Kayode will sing and dance  with praises for Shettima, he will come to contradict what he said today and he will do so without the slightest shame.”
Shettima’s spokesman advised the Presidency and the PDP to do a good analysis of the harm Kayode was doing to President Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral chances, saying Mr. Ima Niboro has managed the image of the president better in 2011.
“The reason is that President Jonathan is essentially a persuasive and emotional speaker and he was presented as such by Niboro in 2011 because Niboro wasn’t an attack dog. So the President’s identity wasn’t contradicted and that was why many Nigerians became emotionally attached to the president.”
He said that the current managers of the president’s image have confused Nigerians about his personality by blatantly insulting people.
“The likes of Femi Fani-Kayode didn’t take time to understand the president and present him as that persuasive person that fits him, in a manner that would win public sympathy for him. They have turned him into the opposition, it is known in political circles that those who are weak go for the offensive out of desperation and fear while those winning defend. This is why in most cases, the incumbent is on the defensive position while the opposition attacks out of desperation.