Abiola: PRP has no plans for alliance with any party

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Kola Abiola, says the party has no plans to form an alliance with any political party for the 2023 general election.

Abiola, the first child of late Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, said this at the launch of the party’s manifesto in Abuja on Saturday.

“I can’t see any right away. You have to run the race before you start thinking of an alliance,” he said.

Abiola expressed optimism that the PRP would win the presidential election with landslide victory.

“We have a very strong grassroots network. We have been campaigning at the grassroots. We will soon begin our national campaign.

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“We have a wide reach. We are in all the Local Government Areas of the country and we have 711 candidates nationwide. That is what we require to run a successful campaign.

“We are a national party that will make a big difference in the election,” he said.

Abiola further dismissed insinuations that he was riding on his late father’s legacy, saying: “It is very unfortunate and ignorant of people to say that. I’m a man of my own right.”

On his part, the PRP National Chairman, Falalu Bello, described Abiola as an intellectually capable candidate.

“Our presidential candidate is physically fit and capable to contest alongside other candidates,” Bello said.

He faulted allegations that the candidates paid for various positions, saying it wasn’t true.

“We in PRP, whoever had a mandate to contest whether presidential or gubernatorial, did not spend a kobo that he gave to the party to be nominated for any position.

“In terms of principle, there is no party better than PRP; we have been tested; we had formed government in Kaduna and Kano states,” Bello said.

The Star