Seun Kuti Admits Naivety for Campaigning for Tinubu
By Boniface Ihiasota, USA
Popular Nigerian singer, Seun Kuti, has admitted to being misled in the past and has now publicly stated that he was “young and naïve” when he supported former Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during his campaign in 1999.
Seun made this confession in a widely-circulated video on his Instagram page where he also addressed rumors of his support for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate.
Seun is the youngest son of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
He said: “I campaigned for Tinubu in 1999 because I knew him with my late father. I did Yoruba politics. Yoruba would be free from Nigeria because I was a fool in those days. I was young. I believed in what I could see.
“I didn’t just stay in that position of privilege thinking that yes, I have arrived because I know Tinubu. I continued to study, learn and develop my political consciousness.
“If truly we are all looking for the best way to be, then we must continue in a certain way to work and be better knowledgeable. So, as I continued to study, the more evidence in front of me proved to me that these politicians were not what they claimed to be.
“I stepped away immediately I discovered that what was happening there was false and selfish because it no longer matches my political consciousness.”
