The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has dismissed the chances of former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, securing the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), or African Democratic Congress (APC) for the 2027 general election.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Bwala said Obi, who polled 6,101,533 votes to finish second behind Tinubu’s 8,794,726 in the 2023 election, would not only lose the ticket race but might also fail to emerge as a running mate.
Bwala speaking on the 2023 presidential election, he said, “The southeast they were trying to find a place. The majority of them tried to align with Atiku Abubakar. The north-central Peter Obi used dangerous rhetoric and deceived the church that he was going to take the country back to the church, and he got the number he could muster.
“Let me tell you, in the southeast, I guarantee you President Bola Tinubu is going to get more than four times, if not six times, the value of the vote he got (in 2023).”
Bwala insisted that, despite Obi having three options, PDP, LP, and ADC, he would not get a ticket in any of them.
“He’s not going to get a ticket in any of the parties… he might not even get the vice presidential ticket from the way things are going,” he said.
The presidential aide claimed that Obi had already lost more than half of his support base because his 2023 votes were built “on rhetoric and division” rather than policy-driven politics.
“Whether Peter Obi is a ticket bearer of the party or not, he has lost more than 50% of his board because they were not votes built on agenda and politics; they were built on rhetoric and division. Nigerian people’s eyes are open,” Bwala said.
Bwala further argued that the South-South would no longer be fertile ground for Obi, noting that most governors in the region now supported Tinubu.
“When President came, most of the governors were PDP governors in the South-South. Tell me a state in the South-South that is not supporting Asiwaju,” he queried.
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