Just got this from the former spokesman of ex-president
Goodluck Jonathan.
As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang
endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space.
They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed
non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of
messages per second. The worst moments
were those days when there was a Boko Haram attack virtually every Sunday.
The intrusion into my private life was total as my wife
complained about her sleep being disrupted by phones that never seemed to stop
ringing. Besides, whenever I was not checking or responding to the phones, I
was busy online trying to find out if the APC had said something contrarian or
some other fellow was up to any mischief. A media manager in the 21st century
is a slave of the Breaking News, a slave particularly of the 24-hour news
cycle, and a potential nervous breakdown case. Debo Adesina, my colleague at
The Guardian once said I was running a “one week, one trouble schedule”. There
were actually moments when trouble knocked on the door every hour, and duty required
my team and I to respond to as many issues that came up. Continue...