Al Jazeera Interview: Atiku's Camp Drags Tinubu's Aide
The camp of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has mocked Daniel Bwala, the special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and policy communication, saying that his recent political posturing is a “opportunistic merchandising of allegiance.”
In a statement sent to Legit.ng on Saturday, March 7, signed by Phrank Shaibu, the senior special assistant on public communication to Atiku, the camp claimed that the presidential aide had earlier approached the camp and requested the manufacture of a false narrative against the Tinubu administration.
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He explained that the former vice president's camp did not approve the request because it was considered “a frivolous and opportunistic attempt at political theatre.”
The development came amid the controversies that surrounded the interview between Bwala and Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hassan. The presidential aide described the exchange as an intellectual bravery, but the ex-VP camp said that the interview exposed the "moral bankruptcy" because he dismissed grave national issues, tagging them as politics.
Shaibu criticised the defence of the legal practitioner about the record of the government on insecurity, alleging that he was trivialising the loss of Nigerian lives in the past two years, saying such is “nothing short of wickedness.”
Atiku's camp statement has started generating comments from Nigerians. Below are some of their reactions:
Samuel Ozonna explained what Bwala should have done:
"Bwala should have gently restrained himself from any sort of “clarification”. If and since he said Tinubu is concerned about his past, then it would make more sense for him to just ignore the backlash!"
Akin Malaolu criticised the presidential aide:
"The name Daniel Bwala has become nauseating to Nigerians. We don't want to be reminded of him anymore."
Abdullahi Benedict urged the opposition to organise themselves:
"Daniel Bwala is now you guys' problem instead of you guys to go and organise yourself and strategise how to unseat APC. I don't understand this kind of opposition."
St. Anthony explained Bwala's disappointment:
"@BwalaDaniel was hoping that Mehdi Hassan would focus on his favourite topic, Peter Obi. He was so rattled that his brain froze, and all he could do was "I don't remember". Boom... here's the video fact. At one point, he wished that the ground would just swallow him. It was that bad."
Kelechi accused Atiku's camp of using ChatGPT:
"Guy, stop using ChatGPT to write something for us. Only a glance at it... AI everywhere. Is it that you cannot do without it in writing?"
See the full statement on X here:
Source: Legit.ng
