Daniel Bwala, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s spokesperson on policy communication, says Al Jazeera used “AI-style” editing to twist his words in a recent interview, and the trimmed clip is now driving the wrong conversation online.
The sit-down, promoted as “Head to Head with Daniel Bwala and Mehdi Hasan,” first aired on 5 March 2026. Almost immediately, Nigerians on X and other platforms called Bwala an embarrassment, claiming he denied basic facts. Bwala insists the outrage is built on a chopped-up segment that leaves out close to twenty minutes of give-and-take.
“The interview ran for an hour and twenty minutes on 11 February,” he told reporters. “Every question was answered, nothing was dodged.” Yet the version posted to YouTube clocks in at forty-nine minutes, and an even shorter eight-minute cut is being recycled on social media. “They stitched sentences together, dropped context, and made it look like I said things I never said,” he said.
Bwala says the network first told him the full conversation would play on television before hitting YouTube. “They blamed breaking news on Israel, Iran and the U.S. for not airing it, then quietly uploaded the edited clip anyway,” he added.
He has asked Al Jazeera to release the raw, unedited footage. “Publish the whole thing. Let people judge for themselves.”
