‘Peter Obi will miss out on ADC Presidential, VP tickets’ – Bwala

Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication, has said that Peter Obi is unlikely to become the presidential or vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Speaking on The Clarity Zone Podcast, Bwala claimed that Obi does not have the capacity to serve as director-general of any coalition movement.

He added that the former Anambra governor is expected to contest the next election under a different platform.

The presidential aide further said that Obi has lost control of the political structure he built after the 2023 election, including his influence in the National Assembly.

“After the election, he lost everybody he was leading. He had members in the house of representatives. How many are there in the national assembly?” Bwala asked.

“The only governor he had… is the governor with him or with us? In fact, I have not seen one that identifies with him at the moment. All the elections he has gone across Nigeria supporting candidates… all of them failed.

“The army of Trojans that he has on social media, they attack people. They say you are two-faced, that you change party. That’s what they do every day.

“But when you say their master and hero has been changing party like a player in the Premier League changes clubs every season, they don’t like it.”

The presidential aide also accused Obi of hypocrisy over party loyalty, saying the former Anambra governor has switched political platforms repeatedly.

“He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour,” he said.

“Right now, when you hear people talk about being between the devil and the deep blue sea, he is between ADC and Labour.

“He will not be the presidential candidate, he will not be the vice-presidential candidate. Peter Obi is going to run on a platform other than Labour and other than ADC.”

Bwala further said Obi will not secure even a quarter of the votes he recorded in the 2023 presidential election.

Obi, a former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, polled 6,101,533 votes to come a distant third behind candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The presidential aide said Obi’s political rise was driven by a fleeting opportunity rather than enduring grassroots strength.

Bwala also described Obi as “an actor” in Nigeria’s political space, noting that his appeal was based on “make-believe” rather than political reality.

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