The Kogi State Governor Bello says he commands more respect of the youths than the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi.
He said this while speaking on a television programme on Monday evening to dismiss the the Anap poll which favoured Obi, while adding that online agitation is different from grassroots mobilisation.
The poll result, released last week, indicated that the former Anambra governor is leading the race, way ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar and the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer Bola Tinubu.
Bello, an APC chieftain, admitted that while Obi is doing great, the LP candidate’s support base is online, a development he says does not translate to grassroots mobilisation.
He, however, said he commands the respect of young people more than the former Anambra State governor.
“Peter Obi – I respect him. A gentleman, one-time governor; a businessman who everyone knows has engaged in several businesses including the importation of the majority of the products we consume today in the country,” the Kogi Governor said
He added that “He is doing well in his own right but let me tell you: online agitation is different from grassroots movements and mobilisation.”
The governor recalled that prior to his re-election in 2019, several polls conducted in the north-central state projected his failure in the exercise.
“I simply laughed because they are not on the ground. They fly in the sky. They don’t move by the road,” the 47-year-old maintained.
“They don’t have a connection at all with the people. I knew exactly what I had put on the ground and the connectivity I had on the ground and I won the election like never before in the history of Kogi State.”
