Special Adviser to the President on Media, Daniel Bwala, has firmly rejected demands for him to issue a public apology to Nigerians over his controversial international television appearance, insisting that he owes no apologies for a heavily manipulated broadcast.
He argued that the intense public backlash was entirely based on an eight-minute heavily edited clip strategically released to the public, rather than the substantive forty-nine-minute conversation. He maintained that anyone who watches the longer version will see that he consistently owned up to his past remarks as a former opposition member.
According to Bwala, he is someone who readily apologizes when he makes a genuine mistake, but he refuses to validate fake news. He noted that he had spent over a year across various Nigerian media platforms addressing those exact past statements, meaning he had nothing left to hide or apologize for.
Daniel Bwala said: “I am one of the fewest persons that own up to issues when they are correct and apologize. I cannot apologize on falsehood and doctored interviews for which public opinions were based. I will not apologize to falsehood and fake news until they release the entire video. When you watch it and come back to me and say it is a poor performance, then I will apologize. I would rather expect lots of Nigerians to apologize to me. They cannot now because their opinion was based on the eight-minute doctored interview. Within that context, they are right in how they express themselves. If you watched the forty-nine minutes, you will find more than three occasions where I acknowledged my past comments. For more than one year in Nigeria, this thing was litigated across television houses and podcasts. I have never denied saying that.”
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