Nigerian Artistes Are Going Into Politics For Money – Clarion Chukwura

Veteran actress Clarion Chukwurah in an interview with PUNCH described the rush, especially by Nollywood practitioners, to join partisan politics as sheer hypocrisy. According to her, some artistes want to go into politics because they are not getting much money from their vocations. Clarion told Punch:

In her words;

The motive of those who are embracing partisan politics is purely monetary. Let us call a spade a spade. If you tell me that you want to go into politics to serve the people, I would
want to look at your record first. 

I want to see what you have done to better the lives of the people in your immediate community. How many boreholes have you sunk in the community? How many hours of community service have you given for free over the last four or five years? How well are you known as somebody who yearns for improvement in social development?”