APC Will Lose Kogi If Yahaya Bello Gets Second Term Ticket …Kogi Youth Warn, Tackle Monarchs

APC Will Lose Kogi If Yahaya Bello Gets Second Term Ticket ...Kogi Youth Warn, Tackle Monarchs

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Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State

Kogi Youth Movement (KYM), a volunteer group of youths from Kogi State last week Wednesday rejected the second term ambition of Governor Yahaya Bello as advocated by a select group of traditional rulers from the state.

Global Excellence gathered that KYM insisted on direct primary to pick the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the November 21, 2019 election.

Kogi State Traditional Rulers Council on the same day had presented the incumbent governor, Yahaya Bello, to President Muhammadu Buhari as their candidate for the election during a visit to Aso Rock, seat of power.

The Monarchs led by the Attah Igala, His Royal Majesty, Dr. Michael Idakwo Ameh Oboni, through the Council’s spokesman, Solomon Dele Owoniyi, the Obaru of Kabba and chairman of Okun Council of Obas, told the president that support for Yahaya Bello’s second term was one of the three demands they came to present to him (Buhari).

“We came to reintroduce our governor to the president and demanded for normal support since they belong to the same party. The people at home have already endorsed His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for second term, so we don’t need to re-endorse him in Abuja here. We are only asking you to add your support,” Owoniyi stated, adding that he believed Buhari had already approved their demands.

Meanwhile, the youths, who protested against Bello’s 2nd term ambition at the Unity Fountain arena in Abuja with placards bearing different inscriptions against the governor, said the KYM was adding their voice to the millions of other voices in the state that have rejected the governor’s second term ambition.

“Our aim is to ensure good governance and foster youth development in all its ramifications. Bello’s first term is “disastrous for youths in Kogi and we are kicking against his plan to compel the traditional institution in the state to support his ambition.

As youths, we are impressed with APC national leadership and President Muhammadu Buhari for his obvious strides to reposition our nation for the better. But it is with great displeasure that we pour out our mind that APC Kogi chapter is now a centre for impunity, abnormalities and bias, orchestrated by Gov. Yahaya Bello. It is with this sense of pain that we are crying out to President Buhari and the APC National Working Committee under the trusted leadership of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; that they come to our rescue in Kogi,” KYM Secretary, Mr. Ayuba Abdullahi, said in a press statement.

Abdullahi, who posited that APC risked losing Kogi State to the opposition should the party field Bello for another four years, added that, “the most recent among all of the numerous problems and issues bedeviling Kogi is the intimidation of our traditional rulers who Gov. Yahaya Bello threatened. We want to state emphatically that Bello doesn’t deserve any sympathy because he doesn’t have sympathy for his citizens, hence the national body should disregard his plea to return against the wishes of the masses,” Abdullahi said.

-Biodun Fariogun