Many alleged previous attacks on Tinubu attributed to me are fake – Bwala 

Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President on Media and Policy Communication, said most of the alleged previous attacks against President Bola Tinubu attributed to him on social media are fake.

Bwala stated this in his reaction to the viral video on social media detailing his   interview with Mehdi Hassan, on Head to Head.

The interview has attracted several reactions from social media followers

Bwala, while reacting, stated that  Head to Head had contacted him “requesting an interview, stating that they wanted to challenge our government on security, the economy, and corruption. ”

He stated however, that “Nowhere in our almost six months of communication did they mention that they were going to challenge my past.

“If that had been their plan, ethically and professionally, they were supposed to inform me so I could prepare my response. But that’s okay, ethically, that is on them, not on me.”

Bwala while reacting to the social media comments on the interview in a statement, ” setting the record straight”, said he ” refused to swallow the pill of Mehdi’s “opposition research-style journalism,” and even today, if you carefully compare what he read as quotes from organisations and groups, you will see that many were inaccurate and some were outright fake news. But I will leave that for another day.”

Bwala had initially denied making those comments when he was confronted during the interview, before Mehdi Hassan replayed recorded video of him making the comments

But Bwala who joined President Tinubu’s administration, from the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, where he served as spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar’s Presidential Campaign team, on 2023, said ” As for what I said about President Tinubu in the past, I am glad those were things I said when I was in the opposition saddle with such zeal. It is all politics”

He however, said he was aware of the implications of serving as a Spokesman in the Tinubu’s cabinet, when he took the job

“When I signed on to the privileged job granted to me by Mr. President, I was well aware of its implications.

“Selling ice cream, looking fine, and seeking the praises of men were never part of it. Some of the fiercest critics of my interview can not even stand local TV anchors.

“But the task of promoting and defending the President and his administration is what I do with ease and joy.

He expressed his preparedness to appear before any interviewer, anywhere in the world, any day and at any time, to defend this government and its policies.

“I have never, and will never, subscribe to ducking or dodging interviews on matters that concern promoting and defending the administration I was appointed to serve. It is the least of what is required of me.

According to him ” Half of Donald Trump’s cabinet is made up of people who once spoke against him, and quite a number of people in our own cabinet also spoke against President Tinubu in the past. Those things do not bother him if you care to know.

“The majority of the naysayers are members of the opposition and their sympathisers. It does not bother me one bit.

Berating the opposition further, Bwala said their “temporary excitement over the interview has not lasted and will not last”

” it does not take away their obvious problem of lack of vision, mission in conducting and managing a political party; yet they seek to manage Nigeria.

“Clearly they have no path to victory and no alternative policies or program for the Nigerian people. And if they say they do, they can as well go to head to head and be interrogated on that; as the saying in Hausa goes “Ga fili Ga doki”

Bwala stated expressed his appreciation to  “Nigerians and non-Nigerians who sent in their commendations over my brave defence of our government in an interview where the anchor would hardly let you answer a question unless it suited his narrative.

“I still have admiration and respect for Mehdi Hassan as arguably the best debater on the planet.

“I look forward to part two of the Head to Head interview, and I am glad that by then questions about my past will no longer be news so that we can focus on our administration’s policies, programs and what we have achieved so far.”