Consequent upon the news going round that he has left the campaign team of the foremost presidential candidate in the country and respected National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has reaffirmed his unwavering support for the party and his commitment to Tinubu’s anticipated success in the upcoming February 25 presidential election.
Bello, in a post via his verified Facebook page on Sunday, said his unwavering support for Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, in the 2023 presidential election remained undiluted.
Reports in some media outlets, not Theliberationnews, showed that the Kogi state governor who doubles as the National Youth Coordinator of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council may have dumped the Tinubu campaign.
The report said Bello’s decision could have been informed by the permutations in the North-Central state ahead of the upcoming November governorship election.
Debunking this, Bello said, “My unwavering support for Tinubu/Shettima 2023 is 100% undiluted. God bless APC!!! God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!”
Also, reacting to the unsubstantiated report, APC described it as “patently false and irresponsible.”
The party’s reaction was contained in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Barr. Felix Morka on Sunday.
The statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to a front page report in Sunday Tribune of today, January 22, 2023, that the Governor of Kogi State and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, His Excellency, Yahaya Bello, has “tactically” withdrawn support for our Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over imagined political permutations on the Kogi State Governorship election scheduled for November.
“The story is maliciously false and a figment of the imagination of it’s author and sponsors.
“Governor Yahaya Bello who serves as the National Youth Coordinator of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, is a solid, resourceful and committed campaigner for our Party’s Candidate, leading a massively successful outreach to youth voters across the country.
“This FAKE NEWS, ostensibly intended to float an imagined rift between Governor Yahaya Bello and Honourable James Faleke, Secretary of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, is the desperate and disgraceful conjecture of opposition elements unsettled by our Party’s giant campaign strides. Both loyal Party men are unquestionably committed and working tirelessly for the resounding victory of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in next month’s presidential election.”
The party, however, urged its supporters and Nigerians at large to disregard the ‘fake news.”
