10 Reasons Why Nigerian Youths Cannot Endorse Yahaya Bello For President

As 2023 general election is approaching, the Governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello has been clamoring that Nigerians are pulling and pushing him to contest for Presidency seat but nobody knows how true it is.

Here are the ten reasons why Nigerian youths cannot endorse Yahaya Bello for President.

1. The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is not one to shy away from issues that may place him at cross-purposes with the norm and such storms place him in the news, sometimes for the wrong reasons.

He has had his own fair share of run-ins with politicians from his state, including his famous spat with former Deputy Governor Edward Onoja, who he unceremoniously removed from office amidst allegations of age falsification and embezzlement.

2. He has been accused of massive looting of Kogi treasury, and using state funds to build a palatial mansion for himself.

3. Bello was accused of double registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the run up to the 2019 gubernatorial election in Kogi.

4. Bello has also been accused of kowtowing to the Presidency and always doing the biddings of President Muhammadu Buhari, at the detriment of the state, as well as mortgaging the future of Kogi for his 2023 presidential ambition.

5. the youngest governor in Nigeria’s fourth republic, the 45-year-old accounting graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, could be said to have come with a lot of baggage which aptly summarizes his persona as the good, the bad, and the ugly.

6. In 2020, a human rights group in Kogi State accused Bello of looting the state treasury when he allegedly made a transfer of N8 billion using a proxy named Abdulsalami Hudu, from the State Statutory Revenue Account between January and December 2018.

7. Also in 2016, Bello was once again accused of diverting N10 billion he allegedly received for the state from the Federal Government meant for local governments.

8. Yahaya Bello shot up on the clown scale when he created a somewhat laughable controversy at the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country by vigorously insisting that the pandemic was not in the state.

When the Covid-19 task force made known their intention to carry out an intensive testing, Bello refused to grant them access and accused them of planning to infect the people.

Under compulsion, Bello was to later claim that no one was found to have contracted the disease.

9. Investigation disclosed that the Kogi State Government under the leadership of Yahya Bello, spent N90 million on software that the developers now offer for only N300,000.

10. He’s secretly behind the removal of his mortal enemy, former Senator Dino Melaye.