Senator Ali Ndume has claimed that Daniel Bwala, a former critic of President Bola Tinubu, is a failed lawyer who would only be a liability to the Nigerian leader.
Ndume dismissed Bwala’s recent actions, suggesting that he is trying to gain sympathy by aligning himself with the presidency. “I don’t have time for that. It’s politics. In our place, we only play politics.
We don’t play politics of violence,” Ndume stated. “We play politics of the people, and I can tell them that Bwala—Daniel Bwala, not Inuwa Bwala or the many other Bwalas we have who are useful—is only a political liability to the President.”
In response, Daniel Bwala accused Ndume of hypocrisy and spreading falsehoods against him. Bwala claimed that Ndume’s criticism stemmed from his own remarks about the senator’s grandstanding against the President and the National Assembly and his alleged encouragement of violent protests aimed at unseating Tinubu.
“This is a man whose party (APC) has requested his demotion in the National Assembly for conduct unbecoming of a distinguished senator, and his senatorial district is about to declare him ‘persona non grata,'” Bwala said. “I will respond to his insults with evidence shortly.”