Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has described the recent appointment of erstwhile Campaign spokesman of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Daniel Bwala as Special Adviser on Public Communication and Media to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a deeply troubling and absolutely immoral.
The civil rights advocacy group pointedly said that Bwala will labour in vain to communicate any meaningful and tangible achievements of the government to Nigerians due to his moral dilemma.
A statement by Emmanuel Onwubiko, National Coordinator of HURIWA noted that the media of mass communication wouldn’t even take any of his words as believable because of his notoriety in absolutely rubbishing the credentials, integrity and credibility of President Tinubu during the presidential campaign in 2023.
HURIWA said the designation of Mr. Daniel Bwala as the adviser to President Tinubu on public communication and the media is an emphatic statement by the president that public opinion matter little to him.
It said; “How does President Tinubu expect any sane Nigerian to believe any communication out of the mouth of Daniel Bwala, the same person, who as the campaign spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, the then PDP’s presidential flagbearer in the 2023 poll, went to the gutter level of branding the then APC’s Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as someone associated with drug trafficking?
“What has changed between when Bwala was running down Tinubu during the Presidential campaign and now that he has gone to grab a Presidential appointment? The memories of Nigeria are fresh and we remember all the dirty campaigns against the person of Bola Ahmed Tinubu including tagging him with such a heinous crime in a prime time interview with a TV stations that was watched by over 100 million Nigerians and then the same extensively damaging information on Tinubu circulated on front pages of Major newspapers.”
“Mr. President should endeavor to inject respect for ethics and morality in deciding on whom to appoint into Public offices. Sir, you must realise that any attempt to give the impression that government has no care in the world for public perception of your APC administration, then the essence of governance is inevitably defeated.
“Imagine the same person who made sensational allegations against the president when he was a candidate, now becoming the spokesman in of the same President as if Nigerians have no retentive memories. This is a moral aberration.
“Mr. President, if Bwala needed financial assistance, why not give him a legal consultancy to make genuine incomes instead of rubbishing the high office of Special adviser on Public communication and the media”.
