Presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala has accused international broadcaster Mehdi Hasan of grossly doctoring their recent interview, describing the journalistic approach adopted during the session as completely unethical and deeply unprofessional.
He revealed that the actual interview lasted well over an hour, but the final version released to the public was heavily manipulated. According to Bwala, crucial segments where he strongly countered the host’s arguments were deliberately cut out, creating a skewed narrative designed to make him look defenseless.
Bwala further explained that the host engaged in post-production deception by inserting past audio clips of his previous statements against President Bola Tinubu into the interview after the actual recording had concluded, without giving him the standard professional courtesy of responding to those specific clips in real time.
Daniel Bwala said: “It is unfortunate that Mehdi Hasan has adopted that approach. It is totally unprofessional. I have asked media executives and personalities whether what happened is ethically right or not. The interview itself was one hour and twenty minutes, but they edited forty-nine minutes. The parts that were edited out were the parts where I was attacking him and giving it to him strong. They doctored the interview in the sense that after the interview, they actually thought it was in that interview when he asked the question and I denied, he played my past. In actual fact, what happened was that after the interview, they went back to my previous statements and found them to add to each place he asked me the question. It is post-interview production. Media executives told me that if they were going to use it, they needed to have sent it to me to provide additional defense.”
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