Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko has revealed that the reason he is supporting the presidential aspiration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is because he once benefitted from him.

His revelation is coming after he and some actors of Yoruba extraction such as Adebayo Salami (Oga Bello), Yinka Quadri and Funke Daramola-Salako, openly declared their support for Tinubu: an action that has continued to receive massive backlash online.

2023: 'It isn't about competency after all' - Nigerians drag Jide Kosoko as he reveals why he supports Tinubu
Speaking in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH's Saturday Beats, Kosoko said:

"Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not just a leader of note, he is a father figure and benefactor.

"I have benefited from him and his wife. As a matter of fact, I have had a relationship with his family for a long time. He is a focused leader; a leader of all leaders.

"He has personally developed many people in our industry, especially those that had health challenges. For example, when actress, Moji Olaiya, died in Canada, he was responsible for everything that had to with transporting her body back home.

"If you observe his wife, you will see that she is a very quiet woman that does a lot for people. I know the number of sick people (in the industry) that she has also sent money to.

"The film industry has enjoyed Tinubu, as he was the first person to give us several hectares of land in Badagry to construct a film village.

"The succeeding administration gave us reasons the place was not conducive enough, and immediately, an effort was made to give us another place in Epe."

Reacting to this, Nigerians slammed the actor, accusing him of taking his political decision based on self-interest.

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He should apologize for the ojota support for buhari he campaigned in

Reacting to this, Nigerians slammed the actor, accusing him of taking his political decision based on self-interest.

Almost everybody is making their political decisions based on self-interest.

I thought stomach infrastructure politics was a PDP thingy. Have u stopped to ask yasef where the money he has been dashing upandan comes from? These older tribalistic generation are utterly shameless in their stupidity! So u will vote for ur candidate because he dashed u money, even though u know there’s no such thing as a free lunch!

All this dragin shud stop, support yr candidate amd allow others their fundamental Rights of choice

God bless jide kosoko for coming out to declare support for Tinubu.

Must be those rabid Ipob turned Obi supporters.

They can even kill Kosoko.

I hate it when they act like he is a competent candidate.

Oga just come out and say you are interested in the bullion vans. Enough of this shalaye.

Tinubu we know.
Jagaban, the sole slayer of...

Maybe he has been given money for Nigeria to remain as it is, but it will not work for them

I didn't stress myself to read it. The same set of people condemned a whole prof for coming out for president against their certificate less candidates. Now You See them attacking PO for no reason, only because he wants to change the narrative.