2023 presidency: I’m not scared of Jonathan – Yahaya Bello

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said he is not afraid of any presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including former President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan who was Nigeria’s president from 2010 to 2015 on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is reported to have the backing of two […]

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said he is not afraid of any presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Jonathan who was Nigeria’s president from 2010 to 2015 on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is reported to have the backing of two governors from the North and many other stakeholders of the APC to defect to the ruling party to pick the party’s presidential ticket for the 2023 poll. But in an interview with newsmen at the APC National Secretariat yesterday in Abuja shortly after obtaining his expression of interest and nomination forms to run for the presidency, the governor said, “That is the beauty of democracy.”

Bello said, “In a democracy, anybody can support anyone but I am assuring you that our great party, the APC is a party that has its own ethics, rules, and regulations and I know surely that all of these are in my favour and I am not in any way scared of the pedigree of anyone whatsoever.

“I am confident that I am in the majority, I have the women, I have the youths, I have the people living with disabilities and they are all behind me. I have leaders, I have followers and above all, I have God almighty.”

“Yahaya Bello is coming on the table to restore hope to the entire Nigerians and the black race in Africa as a continent and the entire black people across the world.

“That is the hope we are bringing on board to unite, to secure, and to put our country and its people on the path of progress and prosperity.”

Saawua Terzuungwe