2023: Yahaya Bello officially declares for presidency, appoints Hafsat Abiola campaign DG

by Our Reporter April 2, 2022

written by Our Reporter April 2, 2022

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has officially joined the 2023 Presidential race.

Bello officially declared his decision to run for the Presidency on Saturday in Abuja.

His declaration lays to rest speculations surrounding him running for the Presidency in 2023.

The occasion was witnessed by mainly Kogi State people, weird looking youths and a number of eminent politicians like Senator Jonathan Zwingina, Femi Fani-Kayode, among others.

Speaking, Zwingina described the Presidential aspirant as a detribalized Nigerian, who governs Kogi with appointees from other states.

Stressing that Nigeria needs Bello as a President, Zwingina noted that the “governor uprooted insecurity from Kogi, the state would have been a breeding ground for kidnapping and banditry, but for his leadership skill.”

Also, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the late MKO Abiola, was unveil as the director-general of the Yahaya Bello presidential campaign organisation.

Addressing the audience at the event, Abiola-Costello said her appointment as the campaign DG is a historic achievement and a turning point for Nigerian women in politics.

Describing herself as the first female DG of a presidential campaign, she said women will no longer be cooks and singers during presidential campaigns.

“Today, we start our march to our destiny. We have been sidelined for decades. Since Nigeria’s independence, we have been struggling to put the Nigerian people at the centre of our government. Nigerians are poor but Nigeria is not poor. Nigeria’s money has been stolen, the people are coming under attack on a daily basis,” she said.

“It is with all sense of humility and due sense of history that we say to all Nigerians today that the train to our destiny is about to take off. We are all on the march to Nigeria’s true destiny as the greatest Black nation in the world.

“I congratulate all the women here. Nigerian women have been made into cooks and singers. Today, I am the first woman director-general of a presidential campaign organisation.

“We are not just cooking, we are not just singing. We are going to build this country.

“Today, we signal to all the vested interests in Nigeria that the takeover by Nigerian women, by Nigeria’s young people has begun. Nothing is going to stop our march to Aso Rock in 2023.”

Abiola said she will lead the campaign across the country to canvass support for the Kogi state governor, adding that Bello is the “leader that is coming”.

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