The Eagles Square, Abuja, on Saturday, played host to thousands of Nigerians who gathered to witness the official declaration for the 2023 Presidency by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state.
Governor Yahaya Bello at the declaration says he wil replicate what he has done in Kogi State if elected Nigeria’s president in 2023.
“I am running for president because I see a bright light shining at the end of the tunnel for our nation,” Mr Bello said on Saturday.
“I am not one of those who always see doom. What God has helped us to do in Kogi state, by the grace of God we will replicate the same in Nigeria.”
Mr Bello said this while declaring to contest the 2023 presidential election at the Eagles Square in Abuja.
“Despite the difficulties we face today, the privilege of being a Nigerian is one I cherish so dearly. I will create 20 million millionaires by 2030.
“Dear friends and fellow patriots, I wish to declare my intention to run for president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2023 general election,” he said.
Mr Bello, 46, assumed office as Kogi Governor in 2015 and became famous for his administration’s failure to pay civil servants salaries.
In 2019, he won re-election, adjudged by both foreign and local observers to be marred by wide-spread violence.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the presumed winner of the June 1993 presidential election, late Moshood Abiola, has been named to lead the governor’s presidential campaign organisation as its Director-General.
Also, the Director-General of the M.K.O. Abiola Campaign Organisation and former Senate Deputy Leader, Jonathan Zwingina, has been named the national coordinator of the Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign
