Late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola’s son and presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Kola Abiola, has expressed optimism about emerging victorious in the 2023 presidential election.
The politician boasted in Abuja on Saturday that he will defeat his counterparts in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC); Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, respectively, come 2023.
Naija News understands that Abiola made the bold declaration at the launch of his party’s manifesto in Abuja, yesterday, November 13, 2022.
The presidential hopeful said Atiku, Tinubu, and other candidates would suffer a landslide defeat in the polls. Abiola used the medium also to fault speculations of a merger between him and other presidential candidates in 2023.
He said PRP has “A very strong grassroots network and would commence its national campaign soon.”
He maintained that the party has structures in all the local government areas with 711 candidates nationwide. While dismissing insinuations that he was riding on his father’s legacy, Abiola said that PRP would make a big difference in the forthcoming election.
Reports have indicated that the crisis plaguing PDP seems to have come to an end. Naija News recalls that the PDP G5 Governors led by Nyesom Wike of Rivers state have been at loggerheads with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku, and its National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu after Wike failed to clinch the presidential ticket.
The G5 Governors include Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and their leader, Nyesom Wike of Rivers state.
The aggrieved governors are calling for the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu from his position, maintaining that it is against the party’s constitution for the two strongest positions to be held by individuals from the same region.
However, indications have emerged that former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) appears to have brought the crisis rocking the main opposition party to an end.
The parley, which appeared to be fruitful, saw the G5 making fresh demands. A party chieftain, who spoke under the guise of anonymity said the G5 has agreed to work for the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar if their fresh demands would be acceded to.
Their demands, according to the reliable source, are: “That the top government offices should be shared among the six geo-political zones;
“That the security chiefs should be shared among all the geo-political zones and that all the party’s offices in the South should move to the North and vice versa if Atiku wins.”
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