A prominent Nigerian social critic, pro-democracy and human rights advocate, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, has descended heavily on Femi Adesina, former aide to the late General Muhammadu Buhari, for defending his frequent medical trips to United Kingdom.
Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, made this view known via a press release titled:” Muhammad Buhari: Femi Adesina Cannot Defend A Predator Who Failed To Build First Class Hospitals In Nigeria”, which he gave to journalists in Abuja, on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025.
Comrade Nowinta, an international conflict resolution expert cum Executive Director, Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre (NGGRC), said Femi Adesina has demonstrated that he is a “part and parsue of the story of wicked deception which the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration stood for; a self centred, deceitful and treacherous character, who served a despot to the tilt for eight years”
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, July 15th, 2025, Adesina defended Buhari’s frequent medical trips to the United Kingdom while in office, insisting they were a matter of survival, not luxury. Femi Adesina, former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, says the late Nigerian leader might not have survived his health battles if he had depended solely on the Nigerian healthcare system.
According to the full details of the press release:
“We at the Nigerian Good Governance Research Centre (NGGC), are strongly dissatisfied with Femi Adesina’s insultive and seething stance about the frequent medical jamboree which the late ex – President under took to the United Kingdom while alive”
“A man whose attitudes represent a cocktail of lethal toxins, who used his eight years romance with Muhammad Buhari to help himself with a chunk of our commonwealth should never be taken seriously. General Muhammadu Buhari had the greatest opportunity to build first class medical facilities in Nigeria, but he failed to do so, after he even promised to do so, during his 2015 electioneering campaigns for the presidency of Nigeria”
“Why would an hungry beneficiary of a monster of cruelty not defend his paid master; a part and parsue of the story of wicked deception which the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration stood for ; a self centred, deceitful and treacherous character, who served a despot to the tilt for eight years?
“When Buhari started his medical trips to the United Kingdom, he would have equally used his presidential powers to influence the building of first class medical facilities across our country, but instead he prioritized his survival and personal safety far above about 200 million Nigerian people, while the hospitals in Nigeria became mere consulting clinics”
“For Femi Adesina to have stayed gleefully with an ex- president who laid a blanket of horror and terror against Nigerian people; a symbol of ruination for the oppressed whose legacy is imprisonement of future generations of Nigerians, speaks volumes about his person. Nigerian masses will never forget that once upon a time a Muhammadu Buhari inflicted unimaginable torture”.
“We will never forget that Muhammadu Buhari represents a sickening example of unthinkable terror on our psyche; instead of him to drastically improved on our health facilities he led a sick regime where impunity and kleptomania thrived uncontrollably; a government mired by poor financial decision making; a commander – in – chief who looked the other way, while thousands of Nigerians were killed in cold blood. This was the man Femi Adesina dared to defend?”
“Now that millions of Nigerians are trying to assuage tensions and move on with their battered lives, even under another despotic civilian regime under President Bola Tinubu, a Femi Adesina is rubbing salt on the injuries perfectly initiated by Muhammadu Buhari. Come 2027, we urge patriotic Nigerians to open their eyes; never to fall easy prey to another predator like Muhammadu Buhari, who consciously failed to build first class health care system in Nigeria”.
