Popular Nollywood actress, Ronke Oshodi Oke, has declared that she regretted campaigning for the All Progressives Congress (APC) after what she saw during the EndSARS protest.
Politics Nigeria recalls that Nigerian youths protested against the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, in October 2020.
The protesters demanded an end to police brutality and called better governance from the political class.
In a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, the actress described herself as a lover of APC.
Ronke admitted that she campaigned for APC in the build-up to the 2015 general elections but was disappointed in the actions of the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, during the protest.
The 48-year-old filmmaker accused Sanwo-Olu of covering up the killing of protesters at the Lekki tollgate.
“I love APC. I’m a fan of APC, body and soul. I felt APC is going to take Nigeria to the next level. So even while we were campaigning for them, I didn’t collect much. I wasn’t looking at the money, I was looking at what is going to happen later,” she said.
“All that they have been doing, I was thinking eight years cannot fix Nigeria. We all know that. But when the EndSARS protest came up, I was so down.
“I was really really down because our governor was saying three different things at the same time. They said they didn’t kill anybody. But if one person died, fifty people have died with that one person. The people that person is feeding and their parents and siblings,” she added.
The actress expressed her displeasure at the APC government’s acts during and after the EndSARS concluded that she regretted working with them for that sole reason.
