Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has lattacked former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, declaring that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) will not offer him either its presidential or vice-presidential ticket.
Speaking on The Clarity Zone Podcast, Bwala insisted that Obi is no longer a political force, describing him as stranded and incapable of leading or coordinating any serious coalition ahead of the 2027 general election.
According to him, the political structure Obi rode in the 2023 election has collapsed, with most of his former allies drifting away.
“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.
He went further to question Obi’s standing among elected officials, claiming the former Labour Party candidate no longer enjoys the support of any sitting governor.
“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,” he said.
Bwala also dismissed Obi’s post-2023 political outings, insisting that candidates he openly supported across the country failed at the polls.
“All the elections he has gone across Nigeria supporting candidates… all of them failed,” he added.
Turning his fire on Obi’s online supporters, Bwala accused them of hypocrisy, saying they attack rivals for party-switching while ignoring Obi’s own history of defections.
“The army of Trojans that he has on social media, they attack people. They say you are two-faced, that you change party,” Bwala said.
“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.”
He listed Obi’s political journey across parties as evidence.
“He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour,” he said.
Bwala concluded that Obi is now stuck between parties with no clear future, insisting the ADC door is firmly shut.
“Right now, when you hear people talk about being between the devil and the deep blue sea, he is between ADC and Labour,” he stated.
He added bluntly that Obi will not emerge as either ADC’s presidential or vice-presidential candidate and predicted that any future ambition would be pursued on another platform.
“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,” Bwala said.
Bwala also claimed Obi would struggle to command even a fraction of the 6.1 million votes he secured in 2023, describing his rise as a fleeting political moment built on hype rather than lasting influence.
