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Atiku’s Camp Takes Up Bible To Shade Betrayal By Makinde, Bwala

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January 30, 2024

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Governor Seyi Makinde and former PDP campaign spokesman, Daniel Bwala were featuring on Tuesday morning as the camp of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar used the bible to reply in parables to the reported betrayal by the two men of the former vice president.

GWG.ng reports that the allusions came after Makinde and Bwala threw political potshots at Atiku through different gesticulations on Monday.

Bwala who served as Atiku’s campaign spokesman prided himself to be the first person to be identified with the campaign’s main rival, President Bola Tinubu during his private visit to Paris, France.

Bwala came out with a tweet to identify with Tinubu saying:

It was a pleasure to meet with the father of the nation @officialABAT President Bola Tinubu in Paris today. He continues to share his thoughts and demonstrate his passion to lead Nigeria out of the woods. pic.twitter.com/qhV0JTAAcU
— D. H Bwala (@BwalaDaniel) January 29, 2024

The tweet came about two weeks after he also visited Tinubu in the Presidential Villa, Abuja with a claim that he was ready to dump the PDP for the All Progressive Congress, APC to support the president.

That came after he had resorted with emotion to the Muslim-Muslim ticket and made jest of the policies of the Tinubu administration.

Also on Monday, Governor Makinde who was part of the G5 governors in the PDP who opposed Atiku ahead of the 2023 election threw a volley at his party’s presidential ticket accusing him of failing to sympathise with the people of Oyo State following the explosion that rocked part of Ibadan some two weeks ago.

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It, however, emerged that Atiku on the following day after the January 16 explosion expressed his sympathy on social media.

However, responding to the perceived double barreled potshots from the erstwhile political allies, the Atiku Camp replying through Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Communications to the former Vice President referenced the betrayal of Paul, the Envagenlist by two of the Christendom’s least esteemed persons.

In a tweet Shaibu observed:

The only time Phygelus and Hermogenes were mentioned in the Bible in 2 Timothy 1:15-18 is for abandoning Paul and the gospel. Can you imagine your legacy being left behind as a traitor? Apostle Paul knew the pain of betrayal; he also knew the comfort of true comradery.
— phrank Shaibu (@phrankangel) January 29, 2024

GWG.ng reports that though neither Makinde nor Bwala were mentioned in the Shaibu tweet, the names of both former allies of Atiku were referenced by those who responded to the tweet in reference to betrayal.