Angry Nigerians rebuke Femi Adesina for saying deaths in PDP are more than deaths in APC

Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday while reacting to recent killings and deaths in many parts of the country, said it cannot be compared to the people that died during the PDP tenure...

Adesina made the statement while responding to the 7days mourning declared by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

He said:

“A quick checklist of some savage and brutal killings in Nigeria during PDP rule, between 1999 and 2015, for which no national mourning was declared:
“November 20, 1999. Odi, in Bayelsa State, was invaded on orders of a PDP President. About 2,500 people killed. No national mourning.
“Between February and May, 2000, about 5,000 people were killed during riots over Sharia law in different parts of the North. No national mourning.

The Presidential adviser's statements has triggered angry Nigerians to drag him on Twitter:

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