Daniel Bwala, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communications, has hinted that Atiku Abubakar, a former PDP presidential contender, may shortly announce his support for Tinubu.
Bwala made this statement on Monday in response to the PDP defections during an appearance on TVC’s Journalists Hangout.
He said that because the PDP lacks leadership and vision, no sane individual would want to stay in it.Bwala asserts that the governing party is not the group of individuals tasked with preventing the nation from turning becoming a one-party state. Everyone will join APC if given the opportunity and favor. Making your party more well-liked and attracting new members is constitutional.It is the opposition’s responsibility to declare that we will not permit this country to become a one-party state and that we will instead create our party, alternatives, and ideals. Saying something like “I don’t want the people to accuse me of a one-party state,” or “This governor should go and join them there while you go there,” is not the president’s responsibility.
They are defecting, in other words, sending the blame stirred at them to anyone who cares to listen to them because nobody will look at PDP as a party now and ever think that the party is sensible enough to have any member there. In the last years, what have they done? Is there leadership there? Is there direction in that party? Have they been able to hold a meeting successfully in that party?
“If you make your house unattractive, you can’t blame your neighbor who has beautified his house for having neighbors. Sheep will always go to greener pastures; they will not stay in dry land. Sitting governors are defecting; are they covered under section 308? They know that when they align with the center, they can deliver good governance to the people. We avoid unnecessary grammar. Tinubu is not being given the credit that he deserves.
“I told my friend that shortly, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may declare his support for Tinubu; nothing is impossible because what Tinubu is doing is to run a government for everybody, for Nigerians. You find the people he relates with who are not in his government or party. He makes sure that his doors are not controlled by those who think that it’s winner-takes-it-all, and that’s the approach he is giving.”
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