{"id":45127,"date":"2021-06-15T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:53:41","slug":"2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","title":{"rendered":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, who currently plies his trade with Stoke City, England made the remark during a courtesy call on the governor.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea star said Nigeria has come of age to produce a youthful leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel also pledged to support Bello\u2019s political ambition ahead of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Southerner should succeed Buhari for peace in Nigeria \u2013 Gov Sule<\/p>\n<p>He said youths should be given the chance to get the much-desired change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat better person to lead the youths than him, because he has been doing all these good works and that is why I am here to see whatever way I can come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To get the youths together to know and see how we can make things better for our country and how we can align to achieve all that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop announces new prophecy about Nigeria\u2019s breakup, Igbo presidency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Mikel, who currently plies his trade with Stoke City, England made the remark during a courtesy call on the governor. The former Chelsea star said Nigeria has come of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1872,1570,2140,3549,254,615],"class_list":["post-45127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-2023-presidency","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-mikel-obi","tag-nigeria","tag-yahaya-bello"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 presidency\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Mikel Obi\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yahaya Bello\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\",\"name\":\"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi - Nigeria","description":"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi","og_description":"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi","datePublished":"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi"},"wordCount":179,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg","keywords":["2023 presidency","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Mikel Obi","Nigeria","Yahaya Bello"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi","name":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-15T12:31:26+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-15T12:53:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yaha ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60c8a2ab3c7a4.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"caption":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/2023-presidency-no-better-youth-to-lead-nigeria-than-yahaya-bello-mikel-obi#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2023 Presidency: No better youth to lead Nigeria than Yahaya Bello \u2013 Mikel Obi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}