Former Special Adviser to immediate-past President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has revealed that he has gotten a new job, hours after leaving office at the presidency, Abuja.
Adesina will on September 1 assume the position of Executive Vice-Chairman at The Sun Newspaper, where he served as the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief before his appointment as presidential spokesman.
He told The Crest in an interview on 26 May, his last working day in office as presidential spokesman, about the new appointment approved by the company’s founder, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
“I came from The Sun newspaper. I was the MD/Editor-in-Chief (of the publishing company). And when I wanted to leave, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu said ‘Don’t resign. You may get to the government and you don’t like it. You can always come back. Or, you may get to the government and stay eight years; you can always come back. I’m going to make you the Executive Vice Chairman of the company.’ Not only did he say it, he issued me the letter. Yes, I have the letter”, Mr Adesina said in the interview.
The Crest further reported that the long duration to start the new job is to allow Mr Adesina “enjoy a well-deserved rest having been unable to go on leave throughout the eight years he served as the ex-President’s spokesman.”
It said the former presidential aide intends to go to “a quiet place somewhere in the world to write his memoirs”.
Mr Adesina was appointed Special Adviser on Media and Publicity by former President Muhammadu Buhari on May 31, 2015, a position he held until the end of the Buhari’s eight-year administration on May 29, 2023.
