2023: Yahaya Bello is best to rule Nigeria, says Hafsat Abiola-Costello
The Director-General of the Hope ’23 Yahaya Bello Campaign Council, Hafsat Abiola-Costello has expressed confidence that Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello remains the best to rule Nigeria from 2023.
Penpushing reports that the daughter of the acclaimed winner of the 1993 Presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola Abiola, expressed the confidence while granting interview with journalists in Abuja, and gave out reasons for her position on Bello, who is a Presidential aspirant under platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC)
The Director General pointed out that Bello was contesting the presidency to restore the truncated hope of Nigerians 30 years after annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election by the administration of the former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida
“The truth is, the people that are truly marginalised in Nigeria are the women and the young people. And, if there is any moral obligation, it is to them that it is owed. Who led the fight against June 12, against the annulment? Was it not the students, the young people? Where were they in 1999 after the whole fight, where were they placed, can we say nowhere?”,she said
“When I look at all these events, the kidnappings and all now, it is clear to me that this is a revolt of young people of Nigeria, that they have had enough. Many of them are revolting in ways that we do not endorse because they have had enough of being marginalized in their own country. If the country will not use them for good, they will use themselves for bad,” Abiola-Costello added.
Penpushing further reports that, she declared that there is no candidate better positioned to harness the potential of young Nigerians than Bello,stressing that the aspirant had signaled the youth that “Nigeria is for them, and that they are the ones that should be in charge and young people and women in Nigeria are ready to lead.”
The Director-General, stated that there there were no longer room excuses, emphasising that Bello was the best choice for Nigeria’s Presidency, having demonstrated transparency, credibility and accountability as Kogi State Governor, a feat she said had been recognised over and over again by the World Bank.
Penpushing also reports that Abiola-Costello pointed out that Kogi State being given such ranking by the World Bank, dismissed all other misinformation about finances being peddled by political opponents.
“First the governor is an accountant, and he actually is one of the few state governors in Nigeria that the World Bank has certified his transparency in finances.I do not know any other state that the World Bank has given his ranking”, she stressed
“So, we can safely say that if this kind of international agency has evaluated him, the work of the state in the management of resources and not found it to be wanting.It means that there is really no credibility to the idea that he is mismanaging the state,” she said.
The Director General explained that Bello was someone that did not like to take loans as he had been carefully managing the resources of the state by the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state he built, adding that when he(Bello) came on board, it was N350 million, and he has built it to N2 billion, adding that Bello”s intention is to build the capacity of the state to grow wealth.
Penpushing further reports that Abiola-Costello said the Governor also succeeded in making Kogi investment-friendly, which had wooed good investors to the state,and this boost the economy of the state, adding that the Governor, in a bid to achieve his aim, set up a business council made up some of the most successful businessmen in Nigeria, not just in Kogi State,and that the council had been guiding the government on policies and practices that would encourage business investments.
“Significantly, His Excellency has brought business to the state, you know Confluence Rice, and other significant investment he has been making in the Rice Value Chain. He understands that one of the big assets in the state is agriculture. But he does not want us to just be restricted to farming but to look also at the value addition in farming. So significant resources in the state have been invested in that regard,” she said.
The Director General explained that there was also the investment agency of the state to help potential investors to go through all the process so that everything is made easy for them, adding that those people had been guiding the government on policies and practices that would encourage business investments and it has been working.
Penpushing also reports that Abiola-Costello said it was with it that the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) grew to almost N2 billion before the pandemic
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