Ex-Atiku spokesman, Bwala alleges foreign connection to planned protest after meeting Tinubu in Aso Rock

By Egena Sunday Ode

There may be a foreign connection to the protest being planned by some Nigerians against the rising cost of living in the country, former spokesman to the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has alleged.
Bwala made the assertion during a chat with newsmen after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
Bwala who was on a solidarity visit to the president, said the Tinubu administration is already addressing the hardship in the country through various initiatives.
The ex-PDP campaign spokesman disclosed that he was on his way to joining the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He also linked the planned protest to politics, saying: “I honestly believe that there is to a large extent the element of politics and my belief is that it even transcends the country there.
“There would have been foreign interest taking advantage of the poor political climate because of the fact of hunger and suffering.
“We know that everybody in Nigeria acknowledges that there is suffering and the suffering did not start last year.
“We’ve been dealing with that issue, you know of suffering, you know, lack of employment we’re talking about enterpreneurship, virtually every aspect of the economy and security is what we have always been pushing the envelope and see how we can attain a better place.”
Bwala regretted that despite the president’s effort, some individuals were threatening to bring down his administration.
He stated: “But suddenly, the conversation if you see the mainstream and social media is all about, they want to bring the government down, President Bola Tinubu must resign.
“Once you hear that kind of talk and language, then you don’t need somebody to interpret that there is a political connotation.
“You must be aware that people have been holding meetings saying they want to unseat the President. By our Constitution, he has four years and it’s renewable for another term or four years and he’s doing everything possible in these four years to deliver on the promise to the Nigerian people. The trajectory he’s going, some of you who are knowledgeable in economics, you would have seen as the data are coming in and some of the indices, it shows that there is a redirection that is going on.
“There is no reform that is easy. Go to Brazil, any part of the world, if you’re going to do reform, it is not going to be easy. It means that all of us will have to readjust, but the government’s role when you are initiating reform is to bring about intervention, which is what the President is doing, like the release of truckloads of food and then giving monies to…remember the increased allocation to the governors.
“He even committed to helping the organized private sector to meet up with the minimum wage.”