Presidential aide Daniel Bwala says Al Jazeera privately apologised to him over his widely criticised interview with Mehdi Hasan on the network’s Head to Head programme.
He, however, said the broadcaster declined his request to make the apology public, prompting him to instruct his lawyers in England to sue for defamation.
Bwala disclosed this in a recent interview on Morayo Afolabi-Brown’s show which was published on Wednesday on YouTube, months after his March 2026 appearance on Al Jazeera, in which Hasan confronted him with past comments he made against President Bola Tinubu while he supported Atiku Abubakar.
Asked whether he had demanded an apology from Hasan following the interview, Bwala said the network acknowledged its conduct but refused to make it public.
“They apologised to me privately. I said they should put it on social media. They said they will not put it on social media, it will affect their credibility, because it’s not just them, but their other programmers at the Al Jazeera network too,” he said.
