By Pathfinder Reporter
Wednesday January 10, 2024
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Daniel Bwala, the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, may defect to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) any moment from now.
Bwala who recently in an interview on Channels Television claimed that Atiku was still the best president for Nigeria and could still win the presidency in 2027, may have made a U-turn as he visited President Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to a post on his X showing the photograph of the visit, Bwala who is from Plateau State said that 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 told State House correspondents after closed-door talks with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
“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.
The PDP chieftain who is likely to replace Senator Simeon Lalong who recently resigned as labor minister had on January 2, 2024, said that the opposition political parties must form a strong coalition if they would successfully wrestle power from the governing APC in the 2027 general elections.
He said, “Without a coalition of political parties, Tinubu Is going to spend the next eight years. That one is for sure.
“The truth of the matter is that there will be a coalition of political parties that will be very strong. This is a fact that I know.”
During Bwala’s visit to Mr President, he commended the President’s suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, saying, “Some of his (Tinubu’s) Ministers that were allegedly reported to have committed infractions, instead of protecting them, he asked that the law should have its course and suspended somebody without wasting time. That, to me, is impressive because it’s about the people.”
Referring to Tuesday’s announcement of a 60 per cent slash in travel entourages for the Presidency and MDAs, Bwala remarked, “There has been this outcry that the government is bloated. Yesterday, he introduced a policy that reduced the cost of governance and today, he told me it is just the beginning.”
The legal practitioner said the President assured him that more cost-cutting measures are underway to reduce the cost of governance.
“What have we been talking about as citizens is that if you don’t have a personal grudge against someone…if it is a policy issue.
“What I’m saying apart from today that I’m talking here is that you all need to visit my Twitter page. In the last few days, I have been expressing my surprise and appreciation to the President for the decisions he is making. So, this is not about political party. And you need to know that, like I said, I was with him before I left. And I was doggedly committed to him.
“I told him today that I am committing to play my part to support your administration, and I have no apologies to anybody,” he explained.