Six celebrities who misplaced 2023 polls

The drive for elevated youth participation in governance catalysed change in Nigeria’s political tradition within the 2023 elections, with a number of celebrities contesting for numerous elective positions within the hopes of fixing the nation’s course.

Nonetheless, not a lot of them fared nicely on the polls based mostly on outcomes declared by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC)…..CONTINUE READING

Listed below are celebrities who did not safe electoral victories:

* Funke Akindele

Arguably the most important Nollywood identify that contested for a political place on the final election was Funke Akindele. She was the deputy governorship candidate of the Individuals’s Democratic Occasion within the Lagos state gubernatorial elections. Nonetheless, she misplaced to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Akindele with Adediran AbdulAzeez (Jandor) the PDP governorship candidate polled a complete variety of 62,449 votes, to return a distant third within the election.

*Banky W

Ace entertainer, Bankole Wellington of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) is one other movie star who ran for workplace within the 2023 elections. The Nigerian singer and politician has misplaced elections twice in a row.

In 2019, he contested for the Home of Representatives seat within the Eti-Osa Constituency in Lagos State underneath the platform of the Trendy Democratic Occasion. He was defeated within the election by Musiliu Obanikoro, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). This yr, he once more ran for a similar place on the platform of PDP, however misplaced to Thadeus Attah of the Labour Occasion.

Attah polled a complete vote of 24,075 to beat Banky W, who scored 18,666 votes.

Reacting to his election loss, The politician stated he had made plans to have a good time his “extremely anticipated win” however the loss will, nevertheless, not cease him from praising God.

*Olumide Oworu

Younger and gifted Nollywood actor Olumide Oworu is likely one of the contemporary faces within the Nigerian political house. He declared his curiosity in contesting for a political place weeks earlier than the presidential election.

Well-known for his position within the tv collection “The Johnsons”, he contested for a seat within the Home of Representatives to symbolize the Surulere I constituency in Lagos State on the Labour Occasion (LP) platform, however misplaced to the incumbent, Desmond Elliott of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who can be one other movie star.

Nonetheless, it was later revealed that Olumide was not on the poll.

*Caroline Danjuma

Umo Eno of the Individuals’s Democratic Occasion defeated the actress and actuality star within the Akwa Ibom governorship election, the place she contested for the place of Deputy Governor with Iboro Otu.

The thespian contested on the African Motion Congress (AAC) platform, coming a distant sixth.

Umo polled a complete vote of 354, 348 to defeat Professor Emmanuel Adigio of the Younger Progressive Occasion, who scored 136,262 votes, whereas the All Progressive Congress got here third with 129,602 votes.

*Tuoyo Ideh

The fact TV star contested for the Home of Representatives, the Warri Federal constituency within the 2023 elections and misplaced. He contested on the The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) platform.

Tuoyo, appeared on the favored African actuality present, Huge Brother Naija’s season 4 tag ‘Pepper Dem’ in 2019.

*Femi Department

Incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressive Congress defeated the veteran actor within the Ogun State governorship election, the place he contested for the place of Deputy Governor with Tofunmi Ogunrobi.

The film star contested on the Nationwide Rescue Motion (NRM) platform, however got here a distant twelfth within the Ogun state gubernatorial elections.

Femi started his performing profession at Obafemi Awolowo College in 1991. His first look on tv was in 2003 in an MTN Group tv business titled “Dance With Me”. He has since starred in over 100 Nigerian films…..CONTINUE READING