How I Turned 2,000 Kogi Residents Into Millionaires – Yahaya Bello

Posted by African Examiner Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Friday, April 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday stated that his administration had turned no fewer than 2,000 persons in Kogi into millionaires.

Bello made this known in Abuja at the ongoing “Second Annual GYB Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents”.

He also stated that he intends to appoint Nigeria’s first female Vice President, if he receives his party’s presidential ticket for the 2023 elections and approval to choose his running mate.

Bello, 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, said: “We have made nothing less than 2,000 millionaires in Kogi”.

Speaking on his choice of VP, he added: “If I am given the free hand to choose, I will not leave the constituency of my mother. I would love to have the first female VP in 2023.”

African Examiner recalls that Bello formally declared to run for President in 2023