{"id":168738,"date":"2025-07-08T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:01:54","slug":"verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"VeryDarkMan Shows More Empathy Than You Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said social critic, Martins Otse, aka VeryDarkMan has more empathy than former presidential candidate, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>Bwala made the remark while describing Obi as an internally displaced politician.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today while rubbishing Obi\u2019s stance on Tinubu not visiting Yelewata in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State following recent killings in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bwala: \u201cVeryDarkMan has more empathy than Peter Obi, his not a politician but he was in Benue. Why does he have to wait until he becomes president before he gets to Benue? Empathy is personal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing about leadership is that you have so many things and you have to prioritize them. If the president were to be physically in Yelewata, would it have made the difference that he was in Benue?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of this rhetoric of Peter Obi and the opposition is neither here nor there. They lack basic things to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he was not in Benue they would say he was not in Benue, now he went to Benue, why didn\u2019t he go to Yelewata? The shifting of goal post is one of the elements you will find in these internally displaced politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many of them gasping for power now, who among them have gone there?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi was talking about the president commissioning something instead of going to where people died, if he understands institutions of the presidency, if he understands leadership or even knows the constitution of Nigeria, he would know that under Section 5, the president exercises that power through the Vice President, ministers, agency heads, and government of the Federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NSA has been going to all these places where there are crisis, the military officers have been going to all these places where there are crisis, the intelligence officers have been going to all these places where there are crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals are Representatives of Mr President, except he doesn\u2019t know what section 5 is.\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 Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said social critic, Martins Otse, aka VeryDarkMan has more empathy than former presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Bwala made the remark while describing Obi as an internally displaced politician. He spoke on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today while rubbishing Obi\u2019s stance on Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,222,14485],"class_list":["post-168738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-verydarkman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VeryDarkMan Shows More Empathy Than You Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said social critic, Martins Otse, aka ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VeryDarkMan Shows More Empathy Than You Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said social critic, Martins Otse, aka ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T09:54:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T11:01:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751959998.703719.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1151\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"VeryDarkMan Shows More Empathy Than You Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T09:54:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-08T11:01:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751959998.703719.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"VeryDarkMan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/verydarkman-shows-more-empathy-than-you-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"VeryDarkMan Shows More Empathy Than You Peter Obi - 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