Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has denied reports that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had a zoning arrangement ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
There have been growing calls for the APC to zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the Southern part of Nigeria.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State had said that the southern region of the country should be allowed to produce the next president of Nigeria in 2023.
The governor joined his Kaduna counterpart, Governor Nasir El-Rufai and other prominent northern politicians who had made similar calls in recent days.
But talking to reporters in Abuja over the weekend, Yahaya Bello said each person from any sector became loose to contest for presidency in 2023, as there was no zoning arrangement in the APC.
He said: “There is nothing like zoning in our party. In 2015, there has been no zoning; many aspirants, which includes former governor Rochas Okorocha contested.
“In 2019, there was no zoning; human beings in APC had been now not brave sufficient to contest with President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Asked if he is inquisitive about the 2023 presidency, Bello stated: “If it’s the will of God for me to end up president in this usa on the right time, I might be.”
The Kogi governor reiterated that he would defeat any candidate he makes a decision to contest against for the 2023 presidency with a report-breaking vote.
“I will file a vote that has never been recorded in Nigeria with the aid of the grace of God. But that’s no longer the difficulty proper now; the difficulty is there need to be Nigeria earlier than we speak of 2023,” the governor brought.
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