President Bola Tinubu’s former campaign spokesman in the south east, Dr. Josef Onoh has congratulated Dr. Daniel Bwala on his appointment by the President as his Special adviser, Media and Public Communications (State House).
Bwala, a lawyer from Borno state, was formerly of the All Progressives Congress (APC) but left the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he was made the campaign spokesman of the 2023 presidential candidate of the PDP Atiku Abubakar.
While working for Atiku and the PDP, Bwala criticised Tinubu’s presidential aspiration but returned to the APC after Tinubu won the election and on accepting his present appointment by the President described Tinubu as “a courageous commander-in-chief and father.”
In his congratulatory message, Onoh who was Bwala’s counterpart during the campaign, said that even though Bwala’s appointment may not go down well with some APC loyalists of the President, it was based on Bwala’s experience and his capability to handle the complex engagements in politics which which Onoh said Bwala vigorously did in recent times while most of the party loyalists and President’s appointees abandoned the president to his own fate with their silence.
Onoh said that Bwala has “officially become the first political spokesperson to achieve such political trinity in Nigeria political space in recent times,” taking cognizance of the fact that Bwala was an APC spokesman who left the party because of his stand against same-faith ticket of Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shetima.
Onoh challenged Bwala to keep up the momentum in the defence of President Tinubu and not to go silent on critics of the President, more so when he (Bwala) had accused Tinubu’s appointees of not defending the President in times of attacks and not promoting his administration’s achievements.
“I wish you a successful and productive term in office in service of our nation,” Onoh congratulated.
