President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has stated that social critic Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, exhibits more empathy than former presidential candidate Peter Obi.
Bwala made the remark while describing Obi as an internally displaced politician.
He spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today while rubbishing Obi’s stance on Tinubu not visiting Yelewata in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State following recent killings in the area.
According to Bwala: “VeryDarkMan has more empathy than Peter Obi, his not a politician but he was in Benue. Why does he have to wait until he becomes president before he gets to Benue? Empathy is personal.
“One thing about leadership is that you have so many things and you have to prioritize them. If the president were to be physically in Yelewata, would it have made the difference that he was in Benue?
“Some of this rhetoric of Peter Obi and the opposition is neither here nor there. They lack basic things to talk about.
“If he was not in Benue they would say he was not in Benue, now he went to Benue, why didn’t he go to Yelewata? The shifting of goal post is one of the elements you will find in these internally displaced politicians.
“How many of them gasping for power now, who among them have gone there?
“Peter Obi was talking about the president commissioning something instead of going to where people died, if he understands institutions of the presidency, if he understands leadership or even knows the constitution of Nigeria, he would know that under Section 5, the president exercises that power through the Vice President, ministers, agency heads, and government of the Federation.
“The NSA has been going to all these places where there are crisis, the military officers have been going to all these places where there are crisis, the intelligence officers have been going to all these places where there are crisis.
“These individuals are Representatives of Mr President, except he doesn’t know what section 5 is.”
