MKO Abiola’s son, Kola, joins PRP, eyes 2023 Presidency

Kola Abiola, eldest son of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12 presidential election, has joined the People’s Redemption Party, ahead of 2023 general elections.

There are indications that he is gunning for the nation’s president in next year’s general elections.

He spoke at the Abuja PRP headquarters on Thursday, decrying the low participation of youths in the active politics.

He said, “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.

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“The way to do this is to give the true owners of Nigeria, that is, the 18 to 36 years age group that makes up over 75 per cent of the population, an opportunity for their voices to be heard and their numbers to count.”

He said the only party that could give the youth such opportunity to make their number count was the PRP.

He said, “I particularly picked to come 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 practice 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 the 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.”