Meet the artistes to contest in 2015.

The relationship between entertainers and politicians in Nigeria is moving away from the advocates’ role actors and musicians used to play as witnessed in the past general elections build ups.  The trend now is the influx of Nollywood stars and Musicians nursing ambitions to vie for one political posts or the other in the forthcoming general elections.

While some entertainers have openly expressed their ambitions to run in 2015 without allegiance with any political party yet, others have declared their interest to run under the one of the giant parties in the country. See why they want to run!

The people want me to run- Julius Agwu

For Julius Agwu, it is no longer a joke that the comedian is taking his political ambition seriously. He is one of the many aspirants who are eyeing Governor Amechi’s job in Rivers State.And to authenticate his ambition, Julius Agwu revealed in an interview that the people of the state and those in Diaspora urged him to contest for the state governor in 2015. he said  "The people of Rivers State in the Diaspora and those in the State have been clamouring for me to come out as an aspirant. They believe I have what it takes to go for it. It just dawned on me that I indeed have what it takes. I have given it a serious thought and have given in to their pressure".

 It's a 9ice ambition

The gongo aso crooner, Abolore Akande widely known as 9ice has always drummed up his political ambition in the ears of his fans. And to prepare himself for the task, he registered for an online course in Public Administration at the Minneapolis –based Cappella Univerisity. 

Now, nice is set to represent the people of Ogbomosho at the senate in 2015 as he recently announced his ambition on instagram. 

Kate crosses to the Senate

Kate Henshaw too is looking forward to cross-carpeting from Nollywood to the Senate to rep the people of Cross River state . The ever-smiling actress is poised to represent the people of Calabar Municipal and Odukpani area in cross river under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party. Though some fans dissed the actress for joining politics but the mother of one is obviously not daunted by anything.

Desperate to give back

As for Desmond Eliot, the desire to give back to the society through politics inspired his ambition.

The actor expressed disappointment about the lack of job and poor state of agriculture in the country. This situation he said requires a lot of things to be done to revive it. And this is one of the reasons he want to be among the candidates to watch out for in the forthcoming election.   Governor Fashola's performance is another factor responsible for his interest in politics. He said "Politics is another field I am venturing into. Governor Fashola and his predecessor, Asiwaju  Bola Ahmed Tinubu have been truly amazing."

Warming up for Senate!

The sudden disappearance of Yemi Solade from Yoruba Home videos raised a lot of questions until when a political postal was seen somewhere in Lagos announcing his readiness for elective position under APC Platform

For Solade it is Home video to national politics come 2015.

It’s not weird to be a commissioner.

The least person you will expect to embrace politics in entertainment industry is this maverick artiste. Reports have been going around that weird mc is being considered for the post of the commissioner for  Arts and Cultures in Osun state following the victory of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola  in the recent gubernatorial election in the state. Obviously it’s a reward of support and allegiance from the maverick governor to the maverick artiste.   

Other artistes may not be showing interest in politics but the previous elections demonstrated how political aspirants patronized musician and actors to help them advocate their ambitions to their fans.  Among these are Fuji stars like Pasuma, Osupa Saheed, Wasiu Ayinde andAdewale Ayuba