Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and policy communication, has claimed that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, will soon defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Speaking during an interview on TVC on Wednesday, Bwala asserted that the Labour Party was losing key members and hinted that Obi’s exit was inevitable.

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

Bwala linked Obi’s potential move to the recent defection of his close associate, Valentine Ozigbo, to the APC. “For Valentine Ozigbo to come to our party Valentine Ozigbo is actually the custodian of Peter Obi then I know for a fact that Peter Obi will join us,” he added.

Additionally, Bwala dismissed the significance of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s defection from the APC to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He accused the SDP of staging media stunts to dominate headlines.

“You see, after one or two weeks of this mini-dramatic activity because the way they scheme these things is that every week, you will hear a breaking news story that ‘a gladiator has joined SDP’so they will dominate the media space,” he remarked.

Bwala predicted that internal conflicts would soon arise within the SDP, arguing that El-Rufai’s move was driven by a desire for control. “The reason El-Rufai did not go to the PDP is because he can’t dictate things there, but he told the world that the chairman of SDP is his friend. So they went there because they want to dictate,” he said.