Ezekiel Awojide
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication, Daniel Bwala, has said that Nigeria dodged a bullet by rejecting Peter Obi at the poll in 2023.He said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has yet to recover from what he described as a “painful defeat” he suffered from the 2023 presidential poll.In an interview with Arise TV on Tuesday, Obi sarcastically claimed that Tinubu was fulfilling his campaign promises by continuing from where former President Muhammadu Buhari left off.He said, “(Tinubu) is doing well because what he promised people is exactly what he is doing; that he would start and continue from where the previous government stopped.“Someone who met the dollar at N300 to N400, and now it is N1,500. He has done fantastic.“When you talk about improvements, there are not things you say; there are things people feel and see.“I have listened to people say jobs are being created — where are the jobs? It’s not about saying, ‘Oh, the investors are coming back’; where are they investing?”But in a post on his X page on Wednesday, Bwala said Obi’s criticisms lacked facts.He wrote, “As I listen to @PeterObi this evening struggling to play the opposition (oppose the government) I can’t but shudder at his abysmal delivery.“He was speaking devoid of facts and logical analysis and almost sounded like a tinkling cymbal or a sounding brass.“Mr Gregory has still not recovered from the painful defeat of the 2023 polls.“But I can understand his confusion because, as it stands today, he seems deserted in the banana republic of fantasy, wondering how he will convince his followers about his agreement to play second fiddle in the 2027 wild goose chase of the opposition.
