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The presidential candidate of the Mass Action Joint Alliance party, Prof. Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has urged the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to step down for her.

She argued that since MAJA party and the PDP are members of the Coalition of United Political Parties, it was needful for the emergence of a candidate for the coalition.

She made the call when she received students who paid her a courtesy call on the sidelines of World Student’s Day, a statement said.

According to the statement, the students’ delegation came from the office of the Students Union Government’s Vice President, Farida Balogun, at the University of Abuja, in collaboration with the National Female Students Association of Nigeria, Confederation of Nigerian Youths in Abuja and the apex of Student’s body in Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Students.

Adesanya-Davies said Atiku should step down for her on account of Atiku’s age and also because she (Adesanya-Davies) is a woman.

She added that the odd favours young candidates for the 2019 general elections.

She argued that “since men have failed Nigeria, they should give women a chance to emerge as the nation’s next president and return the country back to the path of progress.”

The statement added, “The main topic of their discussion was on the prospect of her emergence on the CUPP platform, as she hopes to be the next president of Nigeria in 2019, having received the National Association of Nigerian Students’ NANS Outstanding Leadership in 2018 as well as the students’ endorsement. ”

“I will, in fact, seize this opportunity to appeal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to kindly step down for me at the CUPP as President Buhari of APC steps aside, because this time indeed is a-woman-youth-academician ticket and a tip to the Middle-belt Christian Nigeria currently bearing all the brunt of killings in the North.

“And that is where I come in,” the statement quoted Adesanya-Davies to have said,.

It came as a surprise when Mercy Aigbe, Uche Jombo and Desmond Elliot were not present at the recent premiere of Dayo Amusa’s movie, That Which Binds Us, despite playing lead roles in it.

Being a movie premiere, it was expected that some of the lead characters would be available to add glamour to it.

But while speaking with Sunday Scoop, Amusa said they had informed her of their tight schedules. She also said she didn’t hold a premiere but gathered friends together to introduce the movie to the cinema. Amusa stated, “I didn’t do a movie premiere; it was just a cinema opening. The other actors (Mercy Aigbe, Uche Jombo and Desmond Elliot) couldn’t make it due to their tight schedules. I understood that and I didn’t take it to heart. After that Friday, they were in cinemas for the ‘meet and greet’ sessions with fans. If you go through my Instagram page, you will see their photos. But on Friday when the movie went to the cinema, they had other commitments.”

Explaining why she shot an English movie, the ‘Yoruba’ actress insisted that she didn’t like to be stereotyped. She said, “I want to believe that there is room for improvement in everyone’s life at every point. Also, I am an actress; not a Yoruba actress. Although I got my recognition from the Yoruba sector of Nollywood, it doesn’t make me a Yoruba actor. This is not even my first English movie; I produced Pathetic last year.”

Amusa said there were still plans to release a song and possibly a movie before the year runs out. “While I believe I still can do more, I think I have done well as a musician too. But for me, acting remains my first choice,” she added.

A while ago, it was reported that comedian, Samuel Perry, aka Broda Shaggi, had been signed by Davido to his record company, Davido Music Worldwide.

But in a chat with Sunday Scoop, Broda Shaggi refused to confirm or deny the reports. He said, “For now, it is a private discussion. I don’t want to talk about it; it is either a yes or no.”

Speaking on a recent feud with a dancer who rained curses on him for not reposting a video, the comedian said he was surprised that the person went that far. He explained, “He (dancer) made a video and tagged me, but I didn’t see it. I didn’t like the fact that he used those words on me and I told him. I have never met him and I owe him nothing. He did a video for me and I could decide not to post. But it was appreciated. If I had seen it, I would have saved it and reposted it. The challenge was for the ‘oya hit me’ dance. If you do a dance video, you stand a chance to win as much as N250, 000.”

According to him, as a comedian, he gets plenty of tags every day on social media. “For people who know me, I am always with my phone. If I see any tag, I go to the page and like or comment on the post. But I cannot see everything. At times when some celebrities do the ‘oya hit me’ post, I don’t always see them until people tag me,” he added.

The comedian also maintained that venturing into music would not affect his comedy brand, saying, “Music is what I have always loved to do. The fact that I do it now doesn’t make it new, as I have been doing it before. I am just using the opportunity I have now as Broda Shaggi to push the musical part of me.”