The Media Office of former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday said it was wrong to be addressing Daniel Bwala as a former aide to Atiku.
It said Bwala was a spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation in the 2023 polls and not Aiku’s aide.
The statement read, “Bwala is a former spokesperson of Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation and not a former aide to the former Vice President.
“It is important that the media and the general public take corrective note of defining Mr Daniel Bwala as an aide to His Excellency Atiku Abubakar.
“Bwala offered his services and support to the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation as a spokesperson – and it was a position he held during the last presidential campaign.
“Subsequently, and after the election, the need for a campaign spokesperson has terminated, and Bwala has moved on with his career.
“This, therefore, serves as notice to the media and the interested public to desist from defining Bwala as an ex-aide of Atiku Abubakar.
“We duly urge the public to henceforth recognise, introduce, and define Daniel Bwala by his current vocation and alliance.”
Bwala had in January said he was committed to supporting the administration of President Bola Tinubu, even if that requires him to defect to the All Progressives Congress.
“I told him today, I am committing to play my part to support your administration, and I have no apologies to anybody,” Bwala said.
“APC is a party. President Bola Tinubu is my motivation; if supporting him will take me to APC, so be it,” he stated when asked if he would defect to the APC.
On January 2, 2024, Bwala, a staunch critic of the governing APC and the Tinubu administration, said opposition political parties must form a strong coalition if they would successfully wrestle power from the governing APC in the 2027 general elections.
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