Former Big Brother Naija reality show housemate, Seyi Awolowo, has disclosed plans to venture into politics.<\/p>\n
While speaking about the society\u2019s expectations of him as a result of being \u201cAwolowo\u2019s child\u201d, he revealed his plan to delve into politics<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old reality star is the grandson of late chief Obafemi Awolowo, a renowned Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria\u2019s independence movement.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Tuesday during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, Seyi revealed he is the 20th grandchild of Awolowo and might be tempted to become a politician with the current situation of things in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I would have loved not to get into politics but with the way it seems in the country, I might have to. I would just have liked to enjoy and be on the backbone of entertainment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I have a family that I\u2019m looking forward to growing in this country, I\u2019m not trying to \u2018japa\u2019. I want them to experience Nigeria the way I experienced Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know being able to enjoy the full 36 states, go anywhere you want to, interact with other tribes. Just be a Nigerian in your country and not be limited to certain conditions and policies that can change at any time in foreign country.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I was a child. People were always telling me that as an Awolowo child, this is how I was supposed to be, that I was always supposed to read books like my grandfather. A lot of older people always said that to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Big Brother Naija reality show housemate, Seyi Awolowo, has disclosed plans to venture into politics. While speaking about the society\u2019s expectations of him as a result of being \u201cAwolowo\u2019s child\u201d, he revealed his plan to delve into politics The 33-year-old reality star is the grandson of late chief Obafemi Awolowo, a renowned Nigerian nationalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}