Presidential spokesperson, Daniel Bwala, has said activist VeryDarkMan has more empathy than former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, because he visited Benue State after the massacre of over 200 residents of Yelwata community.

According to him, Obi and other opposition figures didn't visit Benue to commiserate with the victims of the attack, suspectedly carried out by Fulani herdsmen.

Bwala made this known during an interview with Channels TV's Politics Today programme on Monday night.

He said, "Very Dark Man has more empathy than Peter Obi; he is not a politician, but he was in Benue. Why does he have to wait until he becomes president before he goes to Benue? Why must he wait until he becomes a president before he demonstrates empathy?"

On why President Bola Tinubu didn't visit Yelwata community when he arrived in Benue State after the attack, Bwala said no difference would have been made.

"One thing about leadership is that you have so many things and you have to prioritise them. If the President were to be physically in Yelwata, would he have made the difference?" he asked.

"Some of these rhetorics of Peter Obi and, by extension, the opposition are neither here nor there. It is because of a lack of basic things to talk about as far as governance is concerned. If he were not in Benue, they would say he didn't go to Benue. Now that he was in Benue, they asked why he didn't go to Yelwata.

"The shifting of the goalpost is one of the elements you find with these internally displaced politicians. How many of them, who are gasping for power, have gone there? Go to England, go to America, and see what the opposition would have done.

"Secondly, Peter Obi was saying the President was commissioning something instead of going to where people have died. If he understands the institution of the Presidency, if he understands leadership, if he even knows the Constitution of Nigeria, he knows that under Section 5, he would know that the President exercises that power by himself, through the Vice President, Ministers, agency heads and government of the federation. And anybody in this government that you see in any part of the country where there is a crisis... and I dare say that the National Security Adviser has been going to all these places where there are crises," he said.

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