“Shameless U-Turn! Bwala Vomits Denial: No Cash in Tinubu’s 2019 Bullion Van”
Renowned lawyer and fiery political commentator, Daniel Bwala, has firmly dismissed as baseless and misleading the long-standing allegations surrounding a bullion van sighted at the Lagos residence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the lead-up to the 2019 general elections, insisting unequivocally that the vehicle carried no cash whatsoever when it arrived or departed the premises.
Speaking amid renewed online chatter and partisan mudslinging over the controversial footage that first surfaced during the heated presidential race, Bwala, who has carved a niche for himself as a vocal defender of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership, described the narrative peddled by opposition elements and social media agitators as not just factually inaccurate but a deliberate distortion designed to tarnish the integrity of Nigeria’s current helmsman and sow seeds of discord in the polity.
“There was no money inside the6 bullion van,” Bwala declared with characteristic bluntness, urging Nigerians to eschew sensationalism and embrace verifiable truths over politically motivated fairy tales that have lingered like a bad odour since the polls, even as the Supreme Court had long validated Tinubu’s victory and laid such distractions to rest.
Bwala’s intervention comes at a time when archival videos of the bullion van, first highlighted by critics as purported evidence of electoral malfeasance, are being recirculated by naysayers eager to revisit the 2019 controversies, despite the passage of years and the overwhelming mandate Tinubu secured at the polls that propelled him from Lagos House to Aso Rock.
The legal eagle, who recently switched allegiances from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC fold, emphasised that the van’s presence at Tinubu’s Bourdillon home was innocuous and routine, with no illicit funds loaded or unloaded as falsely implied by those pushing the “cash-for-votes” agenda, a claim he branded as “factually incorrect and misleading” in every material particular.
Drawing from his vantage point as a keen observer of Nigeria’s tortuous political landscape, Bwala warned that such recycled propaganda only serves to distract from the Tinubu administration’s ongoing reforms in security, economy, and infrastructure, calling on media gatekeepers and fact-checkers to rise to the occasion and douse these embers of misinformation before they ignite fresh unrest in an already polarised nation.
