Presidency debunks ex-ADC chair’s claim on ministerial slots

Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Communication Daniel Bwala yesterday dismissed as untrue a claim by African Democratic Congress (ADC), former Chairman Ralph Nwosu that he got juicy offers to denied coalition politicians from using the APD platform.

Bwala said Nwosu’s claim that he was offered three ministerial slots to back out of plans to align the ADC with the opposition coalition as not only false, but implausible. 

Responding on Tuesday via his verified X handle, the Presidential aide described Nwosu’s allegations as a fabrication lacking credibility.

“From his words as reported, you know that he lied,” Bwala stated in the post, referring to Nwosu’s suggestion that senior officials of the Tinubu administration had offered him multiple ministerial slots in exchange for abandoning his party’s coalition pressure.

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Bwala presented three key points to counter Nwosu’s allegation.

“No government official(s) of whatever rank in our government can promise or grant ministerial slots but Mr President,” he said, adding that if such an offer were to be made, it would have come directly from President Tinubu himself and not from any intermediaries.

He also questioned Nwosu’s failure to name those allegedly involved in the purported offer.

“The same courage he mustered saying he was promised slots by the officials could have been used in mentioning their names and positions in this government,” Bwala argued.

Mocking the opposition’s efforts to form a united front, Bwala said: “They are painfully graduating to association of jesters or Association of Disorganised Characters.”