The media office of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has lashed out heavily on President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson, Daniel Bwala.
The camp, in a statement on Saturday described Bwala’s
recent political posturing as opportunistic merchandising of allegiance.
The statement, which was signed by Atiku’s Senior Special
Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, alleged that Bwala had
previously approached them with a request to manufacture a false narrative
against the current administration.
“We remain in possession of his message requesting that the
Atiku Media Team issue a press statement claiming that President Tinubu and his
associates were threatening his life,” Shaibu revealed.
According to Shaibu, the team deliberately declined the
request, labelling it a frivolous and opportunistic attempt at political
theatre.
This come against the backdrop of a widely circulated
interview between Bwala and Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hassan.
Atiku’s camp argued that the interview instead exposed the
moral bankruptcy of dismissing grave national issues as mere politics.
Shaibu particularly blasted Bwala’s defence of the
government’s record on insecurity, stating that trivialising the loss of
thousands of Nigerian lives over the past two years is nothing short of
wickedness.
“The interviewer methodically dismantled the talking points
he came armed with and exposed the contradictions between his past statements
and his present posture. What Nigerians witnessed was the uncomfortable
spectacle of a spokesperson struggling to reconcile shifting loyalties with
inconvenient facts,” said Shaibu.
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