A Nigerian comedian and entertainment guru, Gbenga Adeyinka,
has advised young presidential candidates in the 2023 election to contest
Senate and House of Representatives seats.
Adeyinka urged Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Omoyele Sowore
of the African Action Congress, Kingsley Moghalu and other young candidates to
go to the National Assembly to help rewrite the country’s laws.
The comedian, who appeared on a podcast published by
TheCable over the weekend, said no president would act without caution with the
likes of Obi, Sowore, and Fela Durtoye in the Senate.
Adeyinka also advised youths seeking political offices to
start from the grassroots, stating that politics has a bottom-up structure.
He said, “There are some people who are professional
politicians. That is their job. You now wake up and say you want to come, and…
they will not even give you the ticket. With our current structure, it takes
the grace of men for you to become president.
“That’s why when I see them, Sowore, saying they want to be
president, Fela Durotoye wants to be president, Peter Obi wants to be
president, and there’s one very intelligent guy, Moghalu wants to be president…
I think we need to get these young people into the House of Reps and into the
Senate to rewrite our laws.
“If Peter Obi becomes president of Nigeria with the same
structure we have in place, there’s nothing he’s going to do.”
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