Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, says he will not indulge in smear campaign to tarnish the image of Bola Tinubu, presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
Bwala, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made this known on Thursday during an interview with Channels Television.<\/p>\n
He was appointed alongside Dino Melaye, a former senator, as spokesperson for the campaign organisation on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In July, Bwala, a legal practitioner, resigned his membership of the APC over what he described as his \u201cprinciples and conviction\u201d.<\/p>\n
He had criticised the APC over the choice of a Muslim, Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno, as the vice-presidential candidate \u2014 since the party\u2019s presidential flagbearer is also a Muslim.<\/p>\n
Speaking during the interview, Bwala said he did not leave the APC because Atiku promised to reward him with an appointment as being insinuated in some quarters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you without mincing words, Atiku Abubakar is the last politician in Nigeria you can accuse of being nepotistic or a religious bigot. Even the fiercest critic can tell you that. If you look at the team that surrounds him at the moment, we have even less of northerners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know of some persons who currently operate as political mercenaries, like one that wrote an article against me, a few days ago. They are operating as mercenaries. Let me give you an example, somebody said I left because I wanted appointment with Atiku.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the flagbearer of APC, promised that he was going to make me the presidential spokesperson for his campaign and he made the promise a few weeks before the primary, and I have witnesses that know themselves and they are of high repute in government, in the party and around him.<\/p>\n
“This is not even a dispute. I\u2019m saying that on record because if what I\u2019m saying is not true, asiwaju Bola Tinubu must be seeing the interview today and my memory of asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a sweet memory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have my highest regards and respect for him. I say even in this election, I will never engage in maligning his image and character. There are people that will like to tempt you to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy last memory of him was a sweet memory where he gave me regard that governors and senators did not get, and I respect that. This is not about me and asiwaju, and this is about Nigeria and what we are facing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, says he will not indulge in smear campaign to tarnish the image of Bola Tinubu, presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bwala, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made this known on Thursday during an interview with Channels Television. He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":202643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1826,1029,43405,28],"class_list":["post-208121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-2023-presidency","tag-atiku","tag-bwala","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"\n