Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has expressed resolve to heed the call by many Nigerians asking him to run for President in the 2023 presidential election.
Bello disclosed this on Friday when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He said, “Nigerians, the youth and women, and all Nigerians, including very objective elites are asking me to run for President in 2023.
“And I believe it is high time that we look into capacity, who can do the job, who is going to unify this country. And I think they are seeing something in me that they are asking me to come and unite and fix this country.”
However, his claim has attracted reactions from a cross-section of Nigerians, who have asked him to define the distributive determiner ‘All’ as used in his statement, SaharaReporters reports.
Some Nigerians too to Twitter to query the claim by the governor, demanding clarification.
Among them were a tweep, Williams Olufemi, who tweeted, “This one that could not bridge communities in Kogi. Nonsense. Few days after commissioning of a bridge, the story was a collapse.”
Another Twitter user @TundeEddnut wrote, “’All Nigerians have been asking me to run for President in 2023.’ – Yahaya Bello, Kogi State Governor. Abeg who are the ‘All Nigerians’ Joker!”
@QueenKhendra tweeted, “Ah, better make them leave the seat vacant in 2023 than make this Yahaya Bello come. God forbid bad thing. Affliction shall not rise the third time. But wait, who else noticed Seun’s facial expression?”