The special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication, Daniel Bwala, has stated that Peter Obi will neither emerge as the presidential nor vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Bwala made the assertion during an interview on The Clarity Zone Podcast, where he argued that Obi does not possess the capacity to function even as the director-general of any coalition movement.
He further claimed that the former Anambra State governor would eventually contest the next general election on a different political platform.
According to the presidential aide, Obi lost control of the political structure he assembled after the 2023 elections, including his foothold in the national assembly.
“After the election, he lost everybody he was leading. He had members in the house of representatives. How many are there in the national assembly?” Bwala asked.
“The only governor he had… is the governor with him or with us? In fact, I have not seen one that identifies with him at the moment. All the elections he has gone across Nigeria supporting candidates… all of them failed.
“The army of Trojans that he has on social media, they attack people. They say you are two-faced, that you change party. That’s what they do every day.
“But when you say their master and hero has been changing party like a player in the Premier League changes clubs every season, they don’t like it.”
Bwala also accused Obi of inconsistency and hypocrisy regarding party loyalty, noting that he has moved across several political platforms.
“He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour,” he said.
“Right now, when you hear people talk about being between the devil and the deep blue sea, he is between ADC and Labour.
“He will not be the presidential candidate, he will not be the vice-presidential candidate. Peter Obi is going to run on a platform other than Labour and other than ADC.”
The presidential aide further claimed that Obi would not secure up to a quarter of the votes he garnered in the 2023 presidential election.
Obi, who was the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last general election, polled 6,101,533 votes, finishing third behind the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Bwala argued that Obi’s previous political momentum was the result of a temporary opening rather than a solid grassroots base.
He also described Obi as “an actor” within Nigeria’s political landscape, claiming that his popularity was rooted in “make-believe” rather than political substance.