Actor Damilare Olaiya chides colleagues for supporting APC, Tinubu

Veteran Nollywood actor, Damilare Olaiya, has blasted some of his colleagues for supporting the ruling party, All Progressive Congress and President Bola Tinubu

Although Olaiya didn’t give a particular name, the actor, who spoke at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos during the recent #EndBadGovernance protest, said his colleagues who supported Tinubu to become president have hidden their faces in shame.

Registering his displeasure against President Tinubu’s administration, the actor declared his willingness to die for Nigeria if need be.

“For my colleagues, a lot of them that have taken the side of government, their comment sections have been put off. I do not want to mention names. Some of our veteran Nollywood actresses who supported this government are hiding their faces today. They cannot get the backlash from Nigerians.

“But I am telling you, for those of us who still believe in this country, for those of us who have continuously fought, from the time I was an undergraduate, to the time before I got married, to the time I got married, to the time I had my children, to the time my children started having their own children. Today I am a grandfather, I am still in this struggle. I am telling you, even if they end our lives bad governance must end. We are prepared to die.

“For the #EndSARS protest, the world knows that it was the government that sponsored thugs, put them in Lagos BRT vehicles to come to attack protesters. You can see now that we are peaceful, singing that bad governance must end.

“If the government wants to tell the soldiers to start shooting us, we will die, but we know that the soldiers too will die one day. The people that send them too will die. This life that I have is for Nigeria, for my children’s children and I am ready to die if need be.”