Arise Television’s Morning Show host, Rufai Oseni, on Monday criticised Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Communication, over his recent appearance on Head to Head, a programme anchored by Mehdi Hasan.
Speaking during the Monday edition of the programme, Oseni warned that individuals who take on opposition roles in political discourse must rely strictly on verifiable and empirical facts.
According to him, there were several past statements made by Bwala that could have been raised by Hasan during the interview.
Oseni also accused the presidential aide of selectively presenting facts, noting that his position did not come as a surprise to him. He recalled Bwala’s previous appearance on Arise Television, where similar issues were raised.
The remarks follow widespread criticism directed at Bwala after his recent interview on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head with Hasan.
During the interview, Bwala repeatedly denied making some critical remarks about President Tinubu before he was appointed into the current administration.
Oseni said: “Bwala came back to fact-check him (Mehdi) and said he was wrong. Like I said, maybe Mehdi didn’t do his job well because there were so much. How will he (Bwala) explain ‘Even if you give Tinubu 30 years, nothing will work’. Then it goes on like that. And that’s why I say people doing opposition should stick to the facts, empirical facts.
“I’m not surprised. When he (Bwala) came here that day, this was the same question we post at him that some of his supporters were deceiving him and saying ‘yes, he answered it. He fired back,’ because we said he has no integrity. These were the things you said, and now you are saying it’s opposition.
“The last point I want to make based on all his fact check. He is just cherry picking, and the cherry picking are never based on empirical.”
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