PDP cause of Nigeria’s failures - Governor Bello

The governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello, has stated that the failures recorded in governance since the coming of democracy to incompetent leaders who took over leadership of the country from the military.

He made the statement on Friday, January 22, 2021, at a youth summit after the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, blamed the nation’s educational system for the failure being recorded in leadership in the country.

Bello said that when the military decided to hand over power to civilians, a lot of competent people never believed in the process and therefore stood back, and watched while the system was manipulated by incompetent people.

“For them (those who took power from the military), occupying political offices, was business and they accumulated a lot of wealth," he said.

He, however, encouraged the youth to get involved in politics especially at the grassroots level as it will enable them to take leadership positions and effect the change they desire instead of just complaining on the sidelines.