President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, suggested that the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, could be on the verge of declaring his support for the president.
Bwala made this revelation during an appearance on TVC’s Journalists Hangout, where he commented on the recent defections to the PDP.
Additionally, Bwala noted that individuals may choose to stay away from the PDP due to its lack of clear direction and leadership.
According to Bwala: “The set of people who are supposed to stop the country from becoming a one-party state are not the governing party. If we have our chance and favor, everybody will become a member of APC. It’s constitutional to make your party popular and bring more people under the basket of the party.
“It’s the opposition that is supposed to say we will not allow this nation to become a one-party state; therefore, we are going to build our party, build alternatives, come up with ideas, and it’s their duty. It’s not the duty of the president to say the way the government is going, I don’t want the people to accuse me of a one-party state, so this governor should go and join them there while you go there; it doesn’t happen like that.
“They are defecting, in other words, sending the blame stirred at them to anyone who cares to listen to them because nobody will look at PDP as a party now and ever think that the party is sensible enough to have any member there. In the last years, what have they done? Is there leadership there? Is there direction in that party? Have they been able to hold a meeting successfully in that party?
“If you make your house unattractive, you can’t blame your neighbor who has beautified his house for having neighbors. Sheep will always go to greener pastures; they will not stay in dry land. Sitting governors are defecting; are they covered under section 308? They know that when they align with the center, they can deliver good governance to the people. We avoid unnecessary grammar. Tinubu is not being given the credit that he deserves.
“I told my friend that shortly, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may declare his support for Tinubu; nothing is impossible because what Tinubu is doing is to run a government for everybody, for Nigerians. You find the people he relates with who are not in his government or party. He makes sure that his doors are not controlled by those who think that it’s winner-takes-it-all, and that’s the approach he is giving.
“In these days of mental health, nobody will go to PDP, or else you will have problems with mental health. So, we are doing what we are supposed to do by focusing on governance.”
