After pictures and videos of the visit of Daniel Bwala, a presidential campaign spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar during the 2023 elections, to President Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock, were released on Thursday, the internet literally caught fire.
Some critics described Bwala as a man who has no principle.
In a chat with State House correspondents after closed-door talks, he declared his availability to work with the President Tinubu-led administration.
According to him, if supporting Tinubu meant joining the All Progressives Congress (APC), he was ready to join the party and dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Asked if he would defect to the APC, he said: “I told him today, I am committing to play my part to support your administration, and I have no apologies to anybody.
“APC is a party. President Bola Tinubu is my motivation; if supporting him will take me to APC, so be it.”
Daily Trust reports that the legal practitioner was one of those who defected from APC after the party unveiled a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise, he had argued that Tinubu’s announcement of former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate, was not “good news for the APC.”
He argued that the APC had chosen “politics over unity” and ignored the values of “inclusivity, tolerance, common prosperity and diversity.”
Below are some of the things Bwala has said about APC and Tinubu since he left:
‘HUMAN BRAINS DON’T FUNCTION IN APC’
In November 2022, he had said the human brain works effectively until one joins the ruling party.
He said this in a post via X.
“The human brain is unique and miraculous. It works and functions optically 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year, UNTIL YOU JOIN APC, THEN IT STOPS WORKING,” he wrote.
STATE OF THE ECONOMY
Two weeks ago when he featured on a Channels Television programme, Bwala had tackled his Aso Rock host over the state of the economy.
According to him, Tinubu could not get anything done about the economy even if given 30 years.
He said: “When people talk about being patient and waiting, you have to look at the time frame the public officer is expected to execute the work. The President has just been voted into a term of four years. He is eight months into the term which constitutes 31.8 percent of the total time that he has.
“He has less than 70 percent time in government, when is that going to happen? When President Buhari took over in 2015 it was the same language and we patiently followed and he finished the first term and finished the second term.
“When there is a fundamental problem with policy, time is irrelevant, 30 years it will not work. Most of the economists I’ve listened to have faulted the President’s budget with which he was supposed to deliver the agenda flat-out. We want to see deliverables. Nigerians are tired of English, Mathematics, Economics, Science, and Technology. We want to see practical things.”
URGED OPPOSITION PARTIES TO FORM A STRONG COALITION
Early this year, Bwala, had said opposition parties must form a strong coalition if they would successfully retire the APC in the 2027 general elections.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on the second day of the year, he said that without a coalition of opposition parties, Tinubu would spend eight years in office.
“Without a coalition of political parties, Tinubu is going to spend the next eight years. That one is for sure. The truth of the matter is that there will be a coalition of political parties that will be very strong. This is a fact that I know.
“The coalition that is coming will swallow some of the elements that are creating the problems in the various political parties,” he said.
