 The Director-General Yahya Bello, presidential campaign organization, Hafsat Abiola Costello, says the governor of Kogi State will defeat other perceived heavyweights in the forthcoming primaries of the APC in a free and fair contest. Abiola Costello said that he is while addressing a world press conference in Abuja on the candidacy of Governor Bello, a top contender for the 2023 presidency. She said the fact that he was independent and never accepted to have a godfather was a big plus for him, noting that the masses would be his godfathers once he becomes a president. She however said though it was clear that Bello had resisted the idea of godfathers for long, he would carry the older politicians along when he becomes the president of Nigeria. This person that I'm representing today, Governor Yahya Bello, fights for young people. His government has 95% of the appointees are young people. He doesn't just use them to campaign, he puts them in his structures with opportunities to have dignified work. Even look at his campaign council, look at all of us that I have, members of his campaign council, you should see that we're not old people. Indeed, many people said to him that for your Director-General you can have somebody much older that has more experience, and he fought to be able to have somebody, to have me serve in this role, even though I'm younger than the people that were being considered, even though I am female. You also recall that his ADC is female. I want to mention this breakthrough appointments for women, why? Because since I was appointed as his Director-General, I've been getting messages from other aspirants saying that I could have come to do that, play that role for them. The truth is they never asked.