The Special Adviser to Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, says claims by the military leader of Niger Republic, Abdourahamane Tchiani, that Nigeria is colluding with France to destabilise his country are an attempted move to incite northerners against the former governor of Lagos and a despicable propaganda.
Bwala said the military leader deliberately chose a local language in the North.
It should be recalled that Abdourahamane Tchiani, military leader of Niger Republic, made the claims in an interview on Wednesday.
Tchiani, who expressed himself in Hausa, alleged that France is negotiating with terrorists in Nigeria to destabilise his country.
According to him, France paid a substantial amount of money to Bola Tinubu to establish a military base in Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, shortly afterwards, debunked the allegations and described them as baseless.
Reacting to the allegations in a video posted on his X page on Friday, Bwala noted the claims are baseless propaganda, designed to create chaos and incite bad blood in northern Nigeria against Tinubu.
“Yesterday I came across a video, a despicable propaganda piece by the military head of state of the Niger Republic against the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and this is what you often see with military interregnum,” he said.
“The honeymoon is over; he has not been able to address economic situations in his country; everything is turning against him, and in the desperate gasp for breath, he decided to resort to cheap false lies and propaganda against Nigeria.
“The choice of words used by the military leader is quite insultive for what his intentions are; probably in cohoot with politicians in Nigerians; you never know.
“But the whole idea is to create chaos and bad blood in Northern Nigeria against the President,” he added.
