Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication, says Peter Obi would not become the presidential or vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Bwala spoke during an interview on The Clarity Zone Podcast, while claiming that Obi lacks the capacity to serve as director-general of any coalition movement.
The presidential aide added that the former Anambra governor would eventually contest the next election on a different platform.
Bwala stated that Obi 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, pointing out, “He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour.”
“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.”
He also claimed that Obi would not secure even a quarter of the votes he recorded in the 2023 presidential election, in which the former Labour Party candidate polled 6,101,533 votes to finish a distant third.
Bwala described Obi’s political rise as driven by fleeting opportunity rather than grassroots strength, calling him “an actor” whose appeal was based on “make-believe” rather than political reality.