Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has alleged that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, and African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore are persistently attacking President Tinubu and his administration because of their ambitions for the 2027 presidency.
Bwala claimed that the opposition figures have continued to criticize the president’s personal life, political style, and policies without presenting Nigerians with a practical alternative agenda.
In a post shared on X, the presidential aide said an examination of the trio’s political history, philosophy, and conduct raises questions about their democratic credentials.
According to Bwala: “When you see these people wanting to take power from @officialABAT and constantly attacking his life, politics and policies, you would be forced to shake your head in disbelief.
“If you closely look at them, their character, politics and philosophy, you wonder what element they are;
“@sowore Sowore who opens a political party and appoints himself as the national chairman in order to secure a presidential ticket by way of adoption. Then when elections time approaches, he hands the chairmanship, after losing election he collects back the chairmanship till the next election. Is he a democrat?
“To @PeterObi who jumps from one party to another in search of a guaranteed ticket without primaries; Meanwhile his deceived foot soldiers are subjected to primaries in the same party where he secures his ticket by adoption; The foot soldiers and rabble rousers have all lost their primaries because politics is more than activism that they are good at.
“To @atiku Wazirin Adamawa, who believes he has the rights to change political parties in search of his ambition and that is ok by him, but the minute those who supported him also pursue their aspirations away from him, he classify them as lacking character and betrayers (a Classic case of slave and slave master) Under him no one has the rights to become presidents until when he resigns from politics. Wanting to use peter obi and benefit from his followers, when Obi left, Obi is a bad man. The list goes on, and one common denominator is that President Tinubu is more a democrat than them all.
“@officialABAT as a sitting president who should have option of first refusal, and we could have simply had a consensus, but when a member of our party said he too wants to run, a primaries was initiated so he will not be stifled. Now who is a democrat? You tell me.
“What all these opposition aspirants are doing everyday is to simply make noise about our government without offering a clear alternative path.
“Taking advantage of any misfortune that happens to Nigerians as a talking points, calling us with all sorts of names without making a good case for their aspirations. Talk is cheap.”
