Jamiu, the son of Chief MKO Abiola and his late activist wife, Kudirat, says President Muhammadu Buhari has the same agenda as his late father.
He said both were eternally committed to making life easier for the common man.
Asked if Abiola could have run his administration differently from Buhari if he had been declared the winner of the epoch-making June 12, 1993 presidential election, Jamiu said, “Not really. My father and this president primarily have the same objective. They both aim to make life easier for the masses.
“Maybe my father might have resorted more to privatisation as a means of employment generation but the approaches of both men, if not strikingly similar, would have certainly met at the junction relating 50 people-oriented programmers like the school feeding being carried out by this administration, along with its N-Power programme.
“All in all, it is the result that counts and, looking at how Nigeria was in 2015, President Buhari has done an excellent job.”
He faulted those who described Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day as a political gimmick to win the support of Yoruba people towards his re-election bid.
The younger Abiola said, “Many people are too cynical which is why they would think that way. President Buhari is as transparent as humanly possible.
“People like him only do what they feel is right so there is no question of political gimmicks.
“I don’t think it is healthy for us as a society to adopt a constant belief that someone must always be taking us for a ride.
“Thinking this way makes it difficult, if not outright impossible to appreciate good things when they come.”
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