According to a statement by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the government had been getting regular messages from some Nigerian elites urging it to take it easy. “We get regular messages from some Nigerian elites saying ‘cool down’. “It is a very strange morality, that some of those people have, very complicated but cutting across all tribes and religious differences,” he said. He, however, observed that the masses of the Nigerian people have a clearer understanding of right and wrong. “The masses don’t have that problem,” he said According to him, a new tribe of Nigerians who would not compromise their values but would maintain a sense of right and wrong is now emerging. “The man on the street is very clear, so whatever some of these elites say, we shall keep our focus on the masses who voted for us,” the Vice President said.
