Nigeria is in a big mess, nothing really works and anything goes. But when it comes to journalism and business of public relation, it is the worst, a plainly demoralizing darkness without any path to sunlight. The newspapers and electronic media have turned into propaganda machines and centers of misguided lies becoming the least place to find factual news. It is all about lies, besieged with half-truth and out rightly innuendos. Nigerian media is a baggage of smelly trash from hell.
The journalists are poorly paid and depend on the patronage from the politicians and ‘big’ men of the society. And once the politicians find themselves at corridors of power, they employed those journalists as spokespersons and public relation officers.
Daniel Bwala is spokesperson for the current Tinubu administration, from all intent and purposes he looks like an affable fellow with a solid educational background. Once he abandoned his legal career and so journey into the business of journalism and spokes person for politicians he transformed into a sycophant and handful drum beater. He speaks from both sides of his mouth and moves from one party to another depending on which party is in power. In Nigeria there is no party with any grounded political ideology or principle; there is hardly any long standing and credible opposition. Switching party and allies depend on election outcome and self preservation.
Bwala was in opposition before switching side, it is normal in Nigerian politics because ‘man must wack’. There is no principle, no ideology just what Nigerians dubbed STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE. The TV houses and newspapers depend on the ‘brown envelopes’. Therefore politicians and their spokespersons are like saints and kings in the media. They are not worried about criticism and media investigations. The media industry have been bought and paid for. The politicians and their spokespersons are treated with kid gloves, pampered as over grown babies.
Daniel Bwala is a victim of Nigerian journalism; expecting foreign media to play the game as it is done back home, but disappointment, humiliation and shame were handed to him by Hassan Mehdi of AI Jazeera Network.
See below interview: Daniel Bwala vs Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hassan
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