The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Policy, Daniel Bwala, has claimed that the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, will soon leave the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking in an interview on TVC on Wednesday, Bwala said the former governor of Anambra State will not contest the 2027 elections on the platform of the Labour Party.
“Do you know we are emptying the Labour Party? Not because we are asking them to come. Valentine Ozigbo has joined us; Balami has joined us; even Peter Obi will join us,” Bwala said.
He continued, “Peter Obi will not run in the Labour Party. For Valentine Ozigbo to come to our party—Valentine Ozigbo is the custodian of Peter Obi—then I know for a fact that Peter Obi will join us.”
On the defection of the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, from the APC to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Bwala described the defection as “insignificant,” accusing the SDP of orchestrating weekly announcements to dominate news headlines.
El-Rufai announced his departure from the APC on Monday, citing “conflicting values” with the ruling party.
He said, “You see, after one or two weeks of this mini-dramatic activity—because the way they scheme these things is that every week, you will hear a breaking news story that ‘a gladiator has joined SDP’—so they will dominate the media space.
“By the time the two weeks is over and they are able to enjoy this momentary coverage, when they sit down they’ll start fighting over who will be president or vice-president,” he stated,
He explained, “The reason El-Rufai did not go to the PDP is because he can’t dictate things there, but he told the world that the chairman of SDP is his friend.
“So they went there because they wanted to dictate,” Bwala added.
