ABUJA –– Kogi State Governor and presidential aspirant, Yahaya Bello has said his administration had turned no fewer than 2,000 persons in the state into millionaires.
The governor spoke at the opening ceremony of the “Second Governor Yahaya Bello (GYB) Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents” in Abuja on Friday.
Recall that last Saturday, Bello formally declared to run for President in 2023 at an elaborate event at the Eagles Square in Abuja, with a promise to make 20 million Nigerians millionaires by 2023 by adopting the Igbo apprenticeship system.
Responding to a question about his economic plans for the country including his recent pledge to make 20 million Nigerians millionaires by 2030 if he succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari, the governor claimed he has made nothing less than 2,000 millionaires in Kogi.
Bello said, “If you refer to my [presidential declaration] speech, I promised that I would build on what Mr. President promised of ensuring that nothing less than 100 million Nigerians are pulled out of poverty by the year 2030, that’s about seven years from 2023.
“The question will be, “what have you done in Kogi state, how many millionaires have you made?’
“I will tell you that within the limit of our resources, coupled with various challenges and demands on our resources we have been able to make nothing less than 2,000 millionaires in Kogi state, within this short period.
“A millionaire doesn’t necessarily need to be a [Aliko] Dangote. Our government created an enabling environment that if you have N1 million you should be able to turn it around and multiply it.”
Bello also expressed the intention to run for office as President with a female Vice Presidential candidate, if he gets his party’s ticket for the 2023 elections and its approval to choose his running mate.
According to him, “If given the opportunity, if my political party will give me the opportunity and free hand to choose who will run with me come 2023, surely I will not leave the constituency of my mother. I would love to have the first female VP in 2023.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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