2023: I don’t know what record Yahaya Bello will campaign with –Prof Sagay
By Kalu Nwokoro Idika
Professor Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Wednesday said he does not know what record Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is going to base his presidential ambition on if truly he is serious about contesting in the 2023 general elections.
Sagay speaking during an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, said that Yahaya Bello needs to understand that by the zoning arrangement in the ruling party, it will be the turn of the South to produce the APC presidential candidate in 2023.
He said: “If he (Yahaya Bello) wants to run, he knows what to do. But he should know that this time around in 2023, it is the turn of the South. The North is already completing its two terms in the current dispensation and it will rotate to the South.
“But if he wants to go against that understanding and run, let him do so and let’s see how much support he is going to get.”
On the governor’s claim that Nigeria needs a youthful president in 2023, Sagay said being a youth is not an automatic qualification for becoming president.
“If he says Nigerians need youth as president, we have to select the youth we want, not anybody who can just jump in because he is a youth. Being a youth is not an automatic qualification for the presidency.
“So, he can do what he wants to do but nobody is committed to his line of thinking at all. I don’t know what record he is going to base his presidential ambition on.”
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This is coming as the governor has budgeted N1.5billion for refreshments, N600million to maintain deputy governor’s office amid non-payment of workers’ salaries
Civil servants in Kogi State are reportedly begging to feed their families, due to non-payment of their monthly emoluments.
The state budget for 2022 presented to the State House of Assembly, where the government is set to spend more than N1.5billion on refreshments and more than N600million for the furnishing of the Office of the Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja.
According to the budget proposal, Bello will also be spending N50million on donations and redemption of pledges.
The governor also budgeted N500million as “expenses incidental to governor’s tour.”
