Segun Sowunmi, a former campaign spokesman to the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 and 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Bola Tinubu is smarter and miles ahead of his opponents.

Mr Sowunmi stated this during an interview with Channels TV, shortly after visiting Mr Tinubu at his Lagos home.

According to him, he was impressed with the responses of Mr Tinubu to some of the tough questions he put forward to him. “It is not a bad time to have a conversation with the president. I decided to engage him since people talk about his frailty. So, I jumped on that investigation,” he said.

“I have always said he’s smarter than his mates.

“His brain is very alert, he is fit. You know when you are asking someone questions and he answers without looking at the book.
“The privilege to engage with the number one citizen in office, even when I’m not in his party and I critique him, makes him superior to the others.

“I’ve been in this party forever. The only time we go to them is after they’ve lost and we need to shore them up. Do you know the difference between Bola and them? He doesn’t have one approach to dealing with everybody.”

While defending the economic policies of the current administration, Mr Sowunmi lampooned the opposition’s tendency to demonise all government initiatives “without understanding the complexities involved in designing forward-thinking policies”.

“I just believe that there comes a time in the life of a nation where you must try to be sure whether the direction a leader is going is the right direction or at least whether it is the intended direction, and I guarantee you, he is smart—above average,” Sowunmi added.

“There has never been a doubt that I can work with him. If I’m going to work with the president, I am going to leave the PDP.”

He also dismissed the insinuation that he betrayed the former vice president, adding that “Atiku is running a coalition, which everyone knows I’m not part of”.

DAILY NIGERIAN