President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said social critic, Martins Otse, aka VeryDarkMan has more empathy than former presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

Bwala made the remark while describing Obi as an internally displaced politician.

He spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today while rubbishing Obi’s stance on Tinubu not visiting Yelewata in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State following recent killings.

According to Bwala: “VeryDarkMan has more empathy than Peter Obi, he’s not a politician but he was in Benue. Why does he have to wait until he becomes president before he gets to Benue? Empathy is personal.

“One thing about leadership is that you have so many things and you have to prioritize them. If the president were to be physically in Yelewata, would it have made a difference that he was in Benue?

“Some of this rhetoric of Peter Obi and the opposition is neither here nor there. They lack basic things to talk about.

“If he were not in Benue, they would say he was not in Benue, now he went to Benue, why didn’t he go to Yelewata? The shifting of the goalpost is one of the elements you will find in these internally displaced politicians.

“How many of them are gasping for power now? Who among them has gone there?

“Peter Obi was talking about the president commissioning something instead of going to where people died, if he understands institutions of the presidency, if he understands leadership or even knows the constitution of Nigeria, he would know that under Section 5, the president exercises that power through the Vice President, ministers, agency heads, and government of the Federation.

“The NSA has been going to all these places where there are crises, the military officers have been going to all these places where there are crises, the intelligence officers have been going to all these places where there are crises.

“These individuals are Representatives of Mr President, except he doesn’t know what section 5 is.”