Atiku loses loyal aide, Daniel Bwala to Tinubu’s administration

Mr. Daniel Bwala, who just 11 months ago asserted that President Bola Tinubu would be unable to deliver on his promises even if granted an additional 30 years in office, has now been appointed as the President’s Special Adviser on Public Communications.

This appointment shifts Bwala’s stance, transitioning him from a Atiku’s loyalist and vocal critic to a supportive ally within Tinubu’s administration.

The announcement was made by Presidential media aide, Bayo Onanuga who named Bwala among four other new appointees.

In the statement on Thursday, Onanuga named the appointees as Olawale Olopade, Director-General, National Sports Commission; Dr. Abisoye Fagade, Director-General, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism; Dr. Adebowale Adedokun, Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement; and Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser, Media and Public Communications (State House).

During a Channels Television interview following the presentation of the 2024 budget proposals by President Tinubu, Bwala had said:

“When people talk about being patient and waiting, you have to look at the time frame the public officer is expected to execute the work,” Bwala, who was the spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 elections, said on Channels TV.

“The President has just been voted into a term of four years. He is eight months into the term which constitutes 31.8 percent of the total time that he has.

“He has less than 70 percent time in government, when is that going to happen? When President Buhari took over in 2015 it was the same language and we patiently followed and he finished the first term and finished the second term.

“When there is a fundamental problem with policy, time is irrelevant, 30 years it will not work. Most of the economists I’ve listened to have faulted the President’s budget with which he was supposed to deliver the agenda flat-out…”