Kola Abiola, the eldest son of late Nigerian politician and businessman Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, has formally joined partisan politics as he declared his intention to contest for president in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election, under the platform of the People’s Redemption Party, (PRP).
Abiola made this declaration while speaking at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
While declaring his intention, Abiola said he decided to join in the presidential contest to show Nigerians how and what the true definition of democracy means.
He further added that his quest to land the highest seat in the land under the platform of PRP, is because that is the only party in the country that could give youths equal opportunity and representation.
If elected into office, Abiola said he would ensure everybody has equal opportunity irrespective of age, religion and ethnicity.
In his words, “I came back into politics through the PRP for some good reasons. I have gone back to the history of Nigeria to look at the party that truly represents Nigeria. I have gone back and I have found out that the oldest living party is the PRP, it still holds those ideals of what Nigeria and democratic practise should be like.
“It is a party that was started by the people and truly for the people. It is a party that has shown first, as its priority, internal democracy.
“I have come back to PRP to show Nigerians that not too long ago, we did things in the right way and the new entities that have come together nowadays forget that there was Nigeria that did things right.
“I believe in an equal opportunity employer be it employment, be it business, equally in politics and I believe this party represents all of these.
“Everybody should have equal opportunity irrespective of age, religion and ethnicity and that is represented here.
“We have a youth population that has been caught out of the system, the political process.
“The first thing I want to do is to disrupt the political process, to disabuse the minds of the youth on godfatherism.
“The way to do this is to give the true owners of Nigeria, that is, the 18 to 36 years age group that make up over 75 per cent of the population an opportunity for their voice to be heard and their numbers to count.”
Kola Abiola is the son of the winner of the 1993 presidential election. His father ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.
