Hafsat Abiola-Costello, director-general, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, said she is leading the campaign efforts because she sees in him the qualities needed to take Nigeria to its right destination.
Hafsat Abiola, daughter of late Chief M.K.O Abiola, winner of the 1993 presidential elections, said on Sunday in Lagos that one of the similarities between her father and the Kogi governor, was that they both refused to have political godfathers.This, she said, was responsible for the persecution the governor had faced by different interests and the controversies around his administration.
Hafsat expressed the confidence that Bello 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.She added that another similarity was that the late MKO believed in a United Nigeria, just like Bello, noting that he also treated everyone around him with respect regardless of their social standing.
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.