President Tinubu Makes New Appointments

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Daniel Bwala as his Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications.

Bwala’s appointment was contained in a statement by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga who also said Tinubu named three other persons as director-general of various agencies.

“The Special Adviser on Public Communications and Media, Mr. Daniel Bwala is a lawyer and notable public affairs analyst,” Onanuga said in a Thursday statement.

Bwala worked as a spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign team in the 2023 election in which Tinubu beat Atiku Abubakar and others to emerge as president.

He was a vocal critic of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the president in the lead-up to that exercise with Tinubu as the flagbearer of the party.

The lawyer and political analyst had after the election pitched tenth with the APC, saying he would soon team up with Nigeria’s ruling party.

“I am not a member of the PDP. Yes, I have left the PDP,” he said in an edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today in July.

When asked if he is now a member of the APC, he said, “I am very close” to joining the ruling party he defected from.

While his romance with the ruling party raised eyebrows, Bwala said his support for the administration of President Tinubu was not borne out of selfishness.

Aside from Bwala, Tinubu also appointed Olawale Olopade as the Director-General of the National Sports Commission (NSC); Abisoye Fagade for the role of Director-General at the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism, and Adebowale Adedokun as the Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement.

“The President enjoins the newly appointed officers to discharge their duties with dedication, patriotism, and excellence,” the presidential aide said.