A former spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo has jumped to the defense of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Daniel Bwala who has pledged his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Bwala who is also a former spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation after meeting with Tinubu on Wednesday said he is committed to working for the President without any apologies for doing so.
The PDP chieftain who now appears to have dumped the PDP Presidential candidate during the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, said this in his address to State House Correspondents in Abuja.
Okonkwo served as spokesman for Labour Party Presidential flagbearer Peter Obi in the last election. In an interview on Channels Television, Okonkwo said there is nothing wrong with Bwala’s visit to Tinubu.
When asked whether he would go or not if the president called him, Okonkwo said after seeing that picture of Bwala and Tinubu, he thinks that everybody in Nigeria is a suspect including himself.
“It is just that I have not had enough evidence to convict myself. There is nothing wrong in seeing the President because you don’t say no to a President,” he said.
“However, there is something psychophantically wrong when you make a 360 degree on the principles you say you hold dear? What are the things that have changed?
“The President is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces and he has the right to command me to come and see him and I would not have a choice but I will have a choice to what I will say.
“I will have a choice to my demeanour once I have finished seeing him because what he cannot command is what I will say but if he says I must see him, then I have to see him.”
Meanwhile, Bwala was a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) before he defected to the PDP after which he was appointed as Atiku’s spokesperson for the party’s campaign ahead of the 2023 election.
Bwala at the time said his departure from the APC was due to the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the party and became one of Tinubu’s major critics.
