By Kingston Magare 7.3.2026
Confronted with the past vituperations he poured on President Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwala said it was all politics and he has no regrets.
Bwala, who is special adviser to President Tinubu and has been fighting tooth and nail to defend the policies of the government went viral for trying unsuccessfully wish away his previous lampooning of his boss.
He had appeared o Al Jazeera with Mehdi Hassan who grilled him to no end and Bwala was unable to reconcile his past statements with his present.
“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,” Bwala said in a statement on Saturday.
“Half of (President) 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.
“Some of the fiercest critics of my interview cannot 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. I am prepared to appear before any interviewer, anywhere in the world, any day and at any time, to defend this government and its policies.”
He knocked opposition politicians for making a mole hill out of his interview.
“The majority of the naysayers are members of the opposition and their sympathisers. It does not bother me one bit.
“Their temporary excitement over the interview has not lasted and will not last, because 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.”
Bwala however, thanked Nigerians and non-Nigerians who sent in their commendations over what he called “my brave defence of our government in an interview where the anchor would hardly let you answer a question unless it suited his narrative.