Funke Akindele, a Nollywood actress turned politician, has explained why she has continued to disregard criticism of her political aspirations weeks after Bola Tinubu’s disparaging remark.
Funke revealed this during the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ongoing grassroots engagement with citizens in the Eleko community, Ibeju-Lekki axis of the state. Funke is Olajide Adediran aka Jandor’s (running mate) for governor of Lagos in the PDP.
In order to protect Lagos from “bad governance,” the 45-year-old said she entered the governorship race.
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She uttered:
“Nobody is happy with what is happening in Lagos State at the moment. If the people fail to find solutions to it, things will soon go very bad,”
“This was why I joined the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor, so that we can repair the state.”
Speaking on why she ignored those making negative comments about her, she asserted:
“We want to secure the future of our children and it starts now. They said so many things, when I wanted to come out, but I did not answer them because they know that the state will be better if we get into office.”
This is coming weeks after the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu urged the supporters of the party to “act like they do not remember” the name of actress and Lagos deputy governor-hopeful.
Tinubu told party members at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Lagos APC secretariat on Acme Road in Ogba that mentioning the actress’s name is “a big insult”.