From Atiku’s Spokesmen to Tinubu’s: Yesterday Atiku, Today Tinubu, Tomorrow Who Knows?

Segun Showunmi, a former spokesman for Atiku Abubakar’s 2019 presidential campaign, is now urging Nigerians to support Bola Tinubu’s re-election and has joined Tinubu’s campaign communications team. Daniel Bwala, a spokesman for Atiku in 2023, is now Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, despite his earlier sharp criticism of the APC and the president. The author accepts their right to change political allegiance but challenges the expectation that the public should forget their past campaign messages. She notes that Showunmi’s promises of prosperity come as Nigerians continue to face economic hardship.