{"id":161479,"date":"2025-05-06T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-may-soon-support-tinubu-pdp-lacks-direction-daniel-bwala"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:21:53","slug":"atiku-may-soon-support-tinubu-pdp-lacks-direction-daniel-bwala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-may-soon-support-tinubu-pdp-lacks-direction-daniel-bwala","title":{"rendered":"Atiku may soon support Tinubu, PDP lacks direction \u2013 Daniel Bwala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, has hinted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, may soon declare his support for the president.<\/p>\n<p>Bwala disclosed this while featuring on TVC\u2019s Journalists Hangout, where he was reacting to the defections into the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that a sensible person would want to remain with the PDP because the party lacks direction and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bwala: \u201cThe set of people who are supposed to stop the country from becoming a one-party state are not the governing party. If we have our chance and favor, everybody will become a member of APC. It\u2019s constitutional to make your party popular and bring more people under the basket of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the opposition that is supposed to say we will not allow this nation to become a one-party state; therefore, we are going to build our party, build alternatives, come up with ideas, and it\u2019s their duty. It\u2019s not the duty of the president to say the way the government is going, I don\u2019t want the people to accuse me of a one-party state, so this governor should go and join them there while you go there; it doesn\u2019t happen like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are defecting, in other words, sending the blame stirred at them to anyone who cares to listen to them because nobody will look at PDP as a party now and ever think that the party is sensible enough to have any member there. In the last years, what have they done? Is there leadership there? Is there direction in that party? Have they been able to hold a meeting successfully in that party?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you make your house unattractive, you can\u2019t blame your neighbor who has beautified his house for having neighbors. Sheep will always go to greener pastures; they will not stay in dry land. Sitting governors are defecting; are they covered under section 308? They know that when they align with the center, they can deliver good governance to the people. We avoid unnecessary grammar. Tinubu is not being given the credit that he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told my friend that shortly, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may declare his support for Tinubu; nothing is impossible because what Tinubu is doing is to run a government for everybody, for Nigerians. You find the people he relates with who are not in his government or party. He makes sure that his doors are not controlled by those who think that it\u2019s winner-takes-it-all, and that\u2019s the approach he is giving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn these days of mental health, nobody will go to PDP, or else you will have problems with mental health. So, we are doing what we are supposed to do by focusing on governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, has hinted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, may soon declare his support for the president. Bwala disclosed this while featuring on TVC\u2019s Journalists Hangout, where he was reacting to the defections into the PDP. 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