There's leadership failure in the North except Kogi State — Bello claims

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that despite producing billionaires, the North is still backward compared to other regions, a situation he said is a clear evidence of leadership failure.

Governor Bello who made the statement on Thursday while hosting members of Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation led by former governor of Kano, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, accused northern leaders of drawing the region backward instead of advancing its cause.


Bello also accused the leaders of igniting the embers of discord across ethnic and religious lines which tend to polarise the region with consequent conflicts and even bloodbath.

He noted that despite producing billionaires, the region remained backward because of the failure of such privileged individuals to invest and drive the development fulcrum across the region.



He, therefore, urged northern leaders to imbibe the virtues of Sarduana in order to take the region to the next level of development.

“The late Ahmadu Bello practised equity, fairness, all-inclusive and transparency in governance.

“That was why he recorded tremendous achievements for the northern people during his time as leader of the north.


“Ironically, today lack of sincerity among leaders in the region has become a major problem that hindered the development of the region and the only way to tackle this challenge is when we decided to continually emulate the virtues of the late Sarduana of Sokoto who rejected religion and tribal sentiment,” he said.



He pointed out that his administration has exemplified those virtues of Sarduna in its activities, noting that in “Kogi state, there is no segregation among the ethnic groups in the state”