The daughter of the late acclaimed winner of June 1993 presidential election, Hafsat Abiola has been speaking on why she accepted to be the Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation for 2023 general election.
According to her, she sees the qualities needed to take Nigeria to its right destination in him.
Hafsat Abiola is the daughter of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
She said on Sunday in Lagos that one of the similarities between her late philanthropist father and the Kogi State 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.
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The DG expressed the confidence that Bello would clinch the ticket of the All Progressives Congress irrespective of the zone the party’s National Chairman is from.
She said: “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.”
Abiola added that another similarity was that the late Abiola believed in a United Nigeria, just like Bello, noting that he also treated everyone around him with respect regardless of their social standing.
He 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.”
Abiola 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: Senator Jonathan Zwingina.
