Once upon a time, a man of power and ambition – Yahaya Bello – seemed to hover above it all, his name whispered in the corridors of Kogi State like a shadowy figure in a political thriller. He gave himself White Lion. Fast forward to today, and he’s gone conspicuously silent, almost as though he has perfected the art of vanishing. This quiet retreat comes at a curious time when his political “friend” Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is entangled in a storm of allegations and accusations and finding herself in the crosshairs of an unrelenting political warfare.
If ever there was a lesson in how swiftly power can vanish, it is embodied in Bello’s current disappearing act. Once all eyes were on him, with headlines filled with his controversies—corruption allegations, a history of violent rhetoric, and his very own COVID-19 denial saga—Bello was everywhere.
But today, as his legal entanglements with the EFCC rumble on, you could easily mistake him for a mere echo in the political arena.