Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - President Bola Tinubu’s 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’s Politics Today while
rubbishing Obi’s stance on Tinubu not visiting Yelewata in Guma Local
Government Area of Benue State following recent killings in the area.
According to Bwala: “VeryDarkMan 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.
“One 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?
“Some of this rhetoric of Peter Obi and the opposition is
neither here nor there. They lack basic things to talk about.
“If he was not in Benue they would say he was not in Benue,
now he went to Benue, why didn’t he go to Yelewata? The shifting of goal post
is one of the elements you will find in these internally displaced politicians.
“How many of them gasping for power now, who among them have
gone there?
“Peter 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.
“The 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.
“These individuals are Representatives of Mr President,
except he doesn’t know what section 5 is.”
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