Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, says Peter Obi will not become the presidential or vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Speaking in an interview on The Clarity Zone Podcast, Bwala
claimed that Obi lacks the capacity to serve as director-general of any
coalition movement.
The presidential aide also added that the former Anambra
governor would eventually contest the next election on a different platform.
He said Obi lost control of the political structure he built
after the 2023 election, including his influence in the national assembly.
“After the election, he lost everybody he was leading. He
had members in the House of Representatives. How many are there in the national
assembly?” Bwala asked.
“The only governor he had… is the governor with him or with
us? In fact, I have not seen one that identifies with him at the moment. All
the elections he has gone across Nigeria supporting candidates… all of them
failed.
“The army of Trojans that he has on social media, they
attack people. They say you are two-faced, that you change party. That’s what
they do every day.
“But when you say their master and hero has been changing
party like a player in the Premier League changes clubs every season, they
don’t like it.”
The presidential aide also accused Obi of hypocrisy over
party loyalty, saying the former Anambra governor has switched political
platforms repeatedly.
“He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came
back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour,” he said.
“Right now, when you hear people talk about being between
the devil and the deep blue sea, he is between ADC and Labour.
“He will not be the presidential candidate, he will not be
the vice-presidential candidate. Peter Obi is going to run on a platform other
than Labour and other than ADC.”
Bwala further said Obi will not secure even a quarter of the
votes he recorded in the 2023 presidential election.
Obi, a former presidential candidate of the Labour Party
(LP) in the last general election, polled 6,101,533 votes to come a distant
third behind candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
The presidential aide said Obi’s political rise was driven
by a fleeting opportunity rather than enduring grassroots strength.
Bwala also described Obi as “an actor” in Nigeria’s
political space, noting that his appeal was based on “make-believe” rather than
political reality.
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