Presidential campaign organisation of Yahaya Bello has condemned the choice of All Progressives Congress delegates, stating that they are the ‘ones working against the people they were (s)elected to represent for egocentric reasons.‘
According to the statement released on Wednesday, June 8, Yahaya Bello remains the hero of the oppressed.
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The group made the assertion after Yahaya Bello lost in the just concluded APC presidential primaries.
At the primaries which held at Eagles Square in Abuja between Tuesday, June 7 and Wednesday, June 8, the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged the party’s flag bearer for the 2023 presidential election.
While Tinubu polled 1,271 votes to emerge as the clear victor. to emerge as the clear victor, Bello only got 47 votes.
Reacting to the result, Bello’s campaign organization said;
In this process, one leader stands out, according to the majority of Nigerians. And that leader is one that has proven to the downtrodden and those regarded as “Nigerians without surnames”, that regardless of agelong intimidation by the elite, the best of our people can stand tall without compromising the values that we should have been known for as a nation.
That leader, I say with all sense of fairness, is Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello of Kogi State. He is the hero of this process and has made his point loud and clear to the admiration of even his worst enemies.
The statement read in part:
If there was a clear, desperate gang-up by northern governors and the leaders of a party against one person, and that person never for once disappointed his teeming supporters but rather fought to the very end, not minding the crooked process, then he should be celebrated by the constituency he represents – the youth.
A mode of primaries whereby delegates who have largely been pocketed by their paymasters and who defer to the highest bidder are made to choose flagbearers of a political party is as warped as the process itself.
Also noted in the statement:
It is obvious that in a bid to prove that he is not one of them, enemies of this project, Nigeria, went beyond speaking with delegates and oiling their palms to ensure that votes that did not represent Yahaya Bello’s popularity were counted against his name. But they have unwittingly made him the hero of the moment.
