Yahaya Bello (GYB)

Yahaya Adoza Bello is a Nigerian Politician, Businessman and current Governor of Kogi State. He was declared winner of the 2015 Kogi gubernatorial election after he was chosen on the platform of the All Progressives Congress as the replacement for the late Abubakar Audu who originally won the election but died before the result was declared.

He won his second tenure as governor of Kogi State, on November 16, 2019. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress.

He was born on June 18, 1975 in Okene, Kwara State. He is the youngest of six children.

He attended LGEA Primary School, Agassa In Okene LGA beginning in 1984. He was named as a class prefect of class two and was made the school Head Boy in class six. He attended high school at Agassa Community Secondary School, Anyava, Agassa-Okene and obtained his JSSCE and SSCE certificates from Government Secondary School, Suleja-Niger State in 1994.

 

He studied at Kaduna State Polytechnic Zaria in 1995 and obtained an accounting degree from Ahmadu Bello University ABU Zaria in 1999. He further enrolled for a Masters program in Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria where he obtained Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2002. He became a chartered fellow of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria in 2004.

Yahaya Bello started his work career in 2001 when he was posted to Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) for his NYSC mandatory service. He was later offered an appointment in the same office as Revenue Officer II in 2002. 

 

Due to his hard work he was singled him out for promotion to accountant within short period from his commencement of work in the Commission. He was later transferred to head the Makurdi Zonal office Account Department.

He has worked in various departments in the office and rose to the post of Assistant Chief Accountant. I

As an entrepreneur, Yahaya Bello mastered the art of informed stock trading and had a financial breakthrough right before the crash of the stock market. His stock portfolio investments cut across the oil and gas, finance, transportation, and agro related sectors. He then grew and expanded his real estate investments expanding into a number of states in the country. His business/investment clout in these sectors helped facilitate job opportunities for a number of unemployed graduates and youth particularly Kogi State indigenes.

Yahaya Bello can also been considered a public-spirited individual and a philanthropist. He sponsors some Kogi State undergraduates in various higher institutions both within and outside the country.

Yahaya Bello is married with children.

He loves reading, traveling, driving, soccer and boxing.

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