I was fooled to campaign for Tinubu in 1999 – Seun Kuti

<p>Popular Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has stated that he was a fool when he campaigned for the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 1999.</p>, <p>Seun stated this in a trending video shared on his Instagram page to address his alleged support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.</p>, <p>Seun, who is the youngest son of the Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, said he was “young and naïve” when he campaigned for Tinubu, the then-Lagos governor.</p>, <p>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.</p>, <p>“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.</p>, <p>“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.</p>, <p>“I stepped away immediately I discovered that what was happening there was false and selfish because it no longer matches my political consciousness.”</p>