{"id":95771,"date":"2022-06-07T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95771"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:25:31","slug":"yahaya-bello-adamant-refuses-to-step-down-after-meeting-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/yahaya-bello-adamant-refuses-to-step-down-after-meeting-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahaya Bello adamant, refuses to step down after meeting Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOGI State Governor, Yahaya Bello has refused to accept the decision of his 13 Northern States Governors counterpart to endorse southern Presidential Candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Special Convention at the Eagles Square, Abuja.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBello disclosed this to State House Correspondents shortly after meeting the President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The governor noted that President Buhari supports a free and fair contest, warning that the party may be toeing a perilous path if he is excluded from the list of aspirants at the party\u2019s convention.<\/p>\n<p>His visit came barely 24 hours after a group of 13 APC northern governors led by Simon Lalong of Plateau State, met the president to affirm their resolution on a southern candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmen reported that the governors, making good on their word, submitted five names to the president for consideration.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBello said he was at the Presidential Villa to explain to President Buhari why he excused himself from a meeting with the governors on Monday just before meeting the president.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe lamented that his counterparts did not consult him before settling on the decision for five aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>Affirming that he belonged to the younger crop of Nigeria, Bello, expressed optimism about his emergence as flagbearer if the contest is fair and transparent.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was willing to step down for a consensus candidate, Bello said only the president can direct him to step down.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOGI State Governor, Yahaya Bello has refused to accept the decision of his 13 Northern States Governors counterpart to endorse southern Presidential Candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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