Renowned Nigerian comedian Alibaba has expressed strong reservations about entering politics in Nigeria. Speaking during a recent interview on the With Chude podcast, he highlighted that despite his networks and experience, he refuses to dive into politics due to the country’s faulty constitution and system.
“First of all, our constitution is crap; I can say it anywhere. If you bring Obama to run Nigeria with that constitution, he will fail,” he stated.
Alibaba believes that the Nigerian political system is deeply flawed and needs significant changes. He discussed the issue of corruption, saying, “The system is so bad, and the constitution needs to be rigid. The system is screwed. As I am now, if you give me an appointment and you share 300 million, when I come out, I will say they gave me 300 million and I’m whacking this one first.”
Emphasizing the dangers of challenging the system, the father of triplets recounted the fate of a man who stood for transparency: “There was this House of Assembly guy that said our budgets are being padded, and what happened to him? They removed him; the guy didn’t see the light of day. That was the statement he made in public, and that is the kind of situation that we have.”
“A week ago, some people were protesting in the national assembly, saying, ‘You can’t appoint leaders for the minority; let us choose our leaders ourselves.’ The guy was protesting, and those kinds of people don’t last because the system would eat them up. I won’t last one year, even if you make me the DG of an organization or an agency; I don’t think I will last. Some of the civil servants survive on the corruption of the ministry,” he concluded