The Rescue Nigeria Mission, a movement mobilizing for the election of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello as Nigeria’s next President, was launched on Saturday at a town hall meeting with women and youths in Kano.
Abdul Amat Maikwashewa, the movement’s coordinator in Kano, said the Kogi State Governor had made significant contributions to the development of Nigerian youths by bringing them closer to his government and instituting people-oriented policies for their benefit.
Members of the group, according to Maikwashewa, came up with the idea of lining up behind Yahaya Bello as Presidential Candidate because “looking around, no one beats his record currently in Nigeria.”
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“We had to go to him and beg him to run because he is not part of the old order and he is a formidable youth through whom we can realize the yearning of youths to take over governance in Nigeria,” he explained.
Abdulkareem Jamiu, Chief of Staff to the Kogi State Governor, said at the inauguration of the members on Saturday that Nigeria needed to breathe fresh air for the sake of the country and Nigerians in general.
He urged the youth not to let any unqualified and old politician seeking an election determine the fate of the younger generation, which accounts for 70% of the population.
Abdulkareem thanked the organizers for their faith in Governor Bello and reiterated that he possessed the capacity and agility to resolve the country’s security and economic challenges.
He stated that if Bello can eliminate the enormous challenges and restore sanity to Kogi State, there should be no reason to doubt the Governor’s ability to bring Nigeria back into order.
“If Governor Bello can provide solutions to the numerous challenges that Kogi State faces, we have no doubt that he can answer Nigeria’s questions,” he said. To begin with, Kogi is the only state that borders ten other states, including the FCT, making it a mini-Nigeria.
“Before Governor Yahaya Bello took over the mantle of security threat, Kogi was the nerve center.”
The Okene local government once housed a bomb factory. Before this administration took office, bombings of churches, mosques, and public places were commonplace as a result of Boko Haram and ISWA activities.
“Kogi was the epicenter of communal conflict, with one ethnic group dominating other minority groups.”
As a result, the state became nothing more than a theater of anarchy, conflict, and unrest. When you entered the state capital, Lokoja, at the time, it was like a graveyard because there was no electricity, development, or sources of livelihood.”
“When the Governor took over, we hired security with the help of a local vigilante group to restore peace in the state.” The problem is that we no longer have a bombing factory.
The issue of marginalization is no longer an issue. The communal conflict has ended, and peace has reigned supreme in Kogi.
“Thank God for Governor Yahaya Bello’s purposeful leadership,” Jamiu said.
