Peter Obi will join APC, says Daniel Bwala

Daniel Bwala, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has claimed that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is on the verge of defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Bwala made the statement while speaking on TVC’s Breakfast Show, where he reacted to reports of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, leaving the APC for the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

“Do you know we are emptying the Labour Party? Not because we are asking them to come, they are coming. Valentine Ozigbo has joined us, Balami has joined us, even Peter Obi will join us,” Bwala stated.

He also stated that ongoing political movements, including talks of a coalition against the APC ahead of the 2027 elections and El-Rufai’s defection to the SDP, are motivated more by personal ambitions than by the pursuit of good governance.