Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, has again denied ever describing President Bola Tinubu as an illegitimate president.
Bwala made the clarification during an interview on the KAA TRUTHS podcast while responding to questions about comments he reportedly made against Tinubu when he was in the opposition.
According to him, activist and member of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Aisha Yesufu, was the person who described Tinubu as an illegitimate president.
Bwala said Yesufu’s continued view of Tinubu as illegitimate, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2023 presidential election, reflected what he described as a misunderstanding of the law.
“Nobody in Nigeria, even the opposition, including Kenneth Okonkwo, called the President illegitimate. It is only Aisha, and that’s because she is ignorant and doesn’t know what the law is,” he said.
He argued that once an election dispute had been litigated to the highest court in the country and the court had given its final decision, all parties should accept the outcome.
“Even if a person won an election that is flawed, and that election is litigated to the highest court of the land, whose decision is final in all authorities, and they said that the election was valid, from that moment you should back away,” Bwala said.
Asked whether he had ever referred to Tinubu as an illegitimate president in the past, Bwala maintained that he never made such a statement.
“I never called the President illegitimate. If you have it, pull it out,” he added.
Bwala has on several occasions denied comments attributed to him against the President during his time in the opposition.
