Daniel Bwala, erstwhile spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 2023 presidential poll, has said he informed his principal of his last week’s meeting with President Bola Tinubu.
Speaking last night on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, he said: “I informed Atiku I was going to see the President.
“After I had seen the President, I informed him (Atiku) that I had just seen the President and he replied me that, ‘Thanks Daniel for notifying me’.”
Bwala, a rabid critic of Tinubu, the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), also said his decision to now support the ex-governor of Lagos State, who won the February 2023 presidential poll, does not mean he betrayed Atiku.
“It’s absolute nonsense for somebody to say because I said I will support President Tinubu therefore I betrayed Atiku,” the lawyer said matter-of-factly on the programme.
He described as absurd, criticisms trailing his sudden-found support for Tinubu whom he flayed during the 2023 politicking process.
In July 2022, Bwala, then an APC member, dumped the ruling party when Tinubu announced his running mate as ex-Borno governor, Kashim Shettima.
The lawyer and politician faulted Tinubu for his choice of a Muslim as himself as a running mate and quickly joined the campaign train of Atiku, a Muslim and ex-Vice President, who chose a Christian as running mate in the person of ex-Delta governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.
Bwala was one of the very vocal and unsparing spokespersons of Atiku during the campaign that culminated into the last poll.
However, the lawyer shocked Nigerians last Wednesday when he met with the President at the Aso Villa in Abuja, Nigeria’s political capital, and declared his unalloyed support for him.
