Kogi Guber: ‘Nobody Born Of A Woman Can Stop Me’ Smart Adeyemi Asks Yahaya Bello To Do Right

Senator Smart Adeyemi has urged Nigerians everywhere to appeal to Governor Yahaya Bello to ensure the zoning of the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC to Kogi West for the sake of justice adding, however, that nobody born of a woman can stop him from contesting the election.

The third term senator and former president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ in an interview affirmed that the Kogi West people have been left out of the governorship seat in Kogi and will not regard themselves as a conquered people.

Asked if he has told the governor of his intentions, Senator Adeyemi who spoke in a Channels Television programme on Thursday night said:

“He has done his best. He supported my coming to the senate. He is aware and he told me to go ahead.

Observing what he described as his good reasons to be governor, he said:

“I am from the Kogi West senatorial district, in the last 30 years we have not produced a governor, we are not a conquered people, we are not slaves. Nigeria can only have peace when we have fairness and justice.”

While noting that the APC rode on that principle of justice to zone the presidency to the South, Adeyemi said:

“What will determine Yahaya Bello as a statesman or not is who he is going to support in this election. He must rise above sentiments. He is a good guy but he is surrounded by people of questionable character who are misleading him.

“I think Nigerians should appeal to Yahaya Adiza Bello to consider the doctrine of APC of fairness which made us to have one of the best candidates that Nigeria will ever produce as president, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”

Warning that forsaking the zoning principle could be dangerous for the party, Senator Adeyemi said that Kogi West has now been acknowledged as second in voting strength following the deployment of the BVAS machines and the people would deploy their votes to show that they are not slaves.

“Winning the ticket of the APC  is not winning the general election. That you have the ticket of the APC does not translate to automatic victory for you. If a candidate is bad or is not acceptable there is no way that they will vote for such a candidate.

“I do not need to tell Kogi West to vote for me, I don’t need to tell them to vote for someone from Kogi West. For 32 years we have been voting others, we are not a conquered people.”

Asked on his competence? He said:

“Are you in doubt of my competence? My antecedence speaks for me. I am highly educated, I am exposed, I am intelligent, I am courageous and I know the needs of my people.

On his blueprint for the state, he said:

“Stop pushing me to talk too much. As I speak to you, Kogi cannot host a national conference. We do not have an international conference cetnre. I want to build one on the River Niger. We do not have an air strip that is functioning.”

On what would happen if the governor or the party should ask him not to contest, he said:

“Nobody born of a woman will ask me not to contest the election. It is my constitutional right. My party wont do that,” adding that if Kogi West is side-lined that it would be inimical to the party’s prospects.

“They stand the risk of facing the challenge of fielding a bad candidate. Don’t forget that elections, more importantly with BVAS is not a tea party, you need to field a candidate that is acceptable, that has the network and people want a break from the past.”

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