Hafsat Abiola-Costello, the daughter of late Chief M.K.O Abiola, has likened Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State to the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential elections.
Speaking in Lagos yesterday, Abiola-Costello said like her late father, the Kogi governor doesn’t have a political godfather and is daring to contest not minding he is from a minority tribe.
The Director-General of the Bello’s presidential campaign, however, expressed confidence that her principal would clinch the ticket of the All Progressives Congress irrespective of the zone of the National Chairman.
“Nigerians must be given the free hand to choose their leaders. That is the meaning of democracy. My father did not contest to represent zoning interest. His interest was Nigeria and Nigeria alone,” she said.
“These are the same qualities I have seen in the Kogi governor. He dared to contest, not minding that he was from a minority tribe in Kogi and won, and he has come out again. My father did the same, when it was believed that a Yoruba man could not be President.
“Yahaya Bello is the best man for the job. And you know me, I’m not driven by pecuniary considerations. I do what I believe in. In the next seven weeks, we will be working hard, and when we emerge, we will deliver a Nigeria of our dreams,” she said.
Abiola-Costello said her father would have been happy to see that a young, courageous man like Bello had done everything to bring back his Hope ’93 in Hope ’23, with the same person that did the manifesto on board – Sen. Jonathan Zwingina
