The presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, Kola Abiola, has revealed the roles he played in the success of the late MKO Abiola’s presidential adventure in 1992/93.
According to him, he ran the election from top to bottom, noting that he was the one behind the jingles that sold MKO, who was his father.
Many people will remember one of the jingles being referred to as ‘MKO/Is our man o’.
Kola said this on Saturday when he, on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, vowed to repeat MKO’s feat as he spoke with journalists.
It was at the funeral service of the late governorship candidate of the PRP in Ogun State, Prof David Bamgbose.
He said “I am going to win, Insha Allah. I have no doubt. You see we are always used to having things done in a particular way. We don’t do things in a particular way here. We are out to disrupt the process.
“If we run it the way it is run, we will never win, but if we run it my way, there is no doubt. And that’s what happened in 1992-1993. I ran that election from top to bottom. I did the planning, I did the execution, I did everything. All those jingles, if you remember, I did it.
“I ran that election without the typical way of running an election and we won. It is still the best and freest election today in Nigeria. We are going to do a repeat, but this time, it’s for myself.”
