Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and a professor of Law, Itse Sagay (SAN), has said that the likes of Alhaji Yahaya Bello was not needed in 2023 presidential race.
He told Kogi State governor to wait till 2031 to try his luck or aspire for Vice Presidency as the ruling All Progressives the (APC) does not need youths like Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as its presidential candidate in 2023.
Buhari’s aide stated this on Sunday in a chat with journalists noting that it appears that APC will prefer a Southern candidate in 2023 after which power would return to the north in eight years thereafter.
The vocal lawyer pointed out that if it was youthful President which Bello has been emphasising, they are many of them in the Southern part of the country.
Sagay noted: “I don’t see the point Yahaya Bello is making. We have young people in the South too. So, we don’t need young people like Yahaya Bello to contest under APC in 2023. He should wait for his turn”.
“He can wait for eight years for the South to exhaust its turn before he can come out to contest or he should aspire to be vice-president and then look for a strong Southern presidential candidate to run with”.
Sagay who is also a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress advised Bello to forget his ambition saying, “there is no way he can ever be the APC presidential candidate for 2023. It will never happen”.
He called on APC to make the 2023 presidential race a matter of rights and prevent any northerner from contesting based on relationship that exists within the party.
