Talks of coalition swell our camp, says Bwala

Presidential spokesperson, Daniel Bwala, has stated that the more the opposition discusses a coalition, the more members they lose to President Bola Tinubu’s re-election camp.

According to Bwala, who serves as Special Adviser on Public Communications and Media to the President, this is all happening while the Tinubu administration focuses on governance.

He shared on X, “We maintain our focus on governance, (knowing 2027 is too far to be talking about politics); You started the noise about coalition, yet the more you talk about it, the more people leave your camps to join us; so who is actually in a coalition?”

Bwala said this amid talks of a coalition to unseat President Tinubu in the coming 2027 general elections.

Key figures in the coalition talks include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former presidential candidate, Peter Obi; former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, among others.

A few weeks ago, Bwala appeared on Focus Nigeria, a programme aired on AIT, to demarket the coalition, saying the initiative lacks grassroots connection and real influence.

“I know that the southern people generally have a sentiment that the north has done eight years. The south should be allowed to do eight years,” he said.

“These southern people who have this sentiment, they are even in the political parties where northerners have contested. They will not vote for the northern candidate. They will vote for a southern candidate. And it is fair, just, and equitable.”

Further speaking, he stated that people often mistake the population of the north by numbering a few politicians from the region.

“When we talk of the north, there are times there is a misconception. People identify five eggheads and call them the north. Some of them are disconnected from the source,” he said.