Charly Boy isn’t willing to drop the issue on entertainers entering into politics. As more entertainers continue to join the political bandwagon, Charly Boy who has been in the Nigerian music scene for over 38 years has frowned at the trend.
‘We are living in very hard times and however they think they can augment their source of livelihood; I understand some of these issues because our environment has become crazy and unpredictable whereby they do not know what is going to happen tomorrow,’ he began.
Continuing, he said ‘I know to some people, they think politics is the way. ‘Personally, I would never do that; I would never jump into something I know nothing about. We Nigerians are like ‘groupsouls,’ meaning we just rush into what we see everybody going into.
‘Whether we can go through that route or not is irrelevant; but because everybody is going through it, we just want to be a part of it. It is also known as the ‘bandwagon syndrome.
‘That is not my template of doing things, anybody that knows me know that I don’t venture into things others are doing. I don’t follow the bandwagon and that is why I do not see myself venturing into politics and I have a little disrespect for politicians. I know that most of them are bad and they are people who have not nurtured themselves as leaders and are involved in politics because of the money they want to steal.
‘The only way you can enter into politics is if you have some treachery in you because most politicians are treacherous. They are not people of integrity; so if an artiste wants to venture into that field, he better be armed with that art of treachery, and if he does not have it, he cannot survive because that is what Nigerian politics is all about.’
‘For me, it is so ‘uncool’ but then again I am not a saint and I under-stand the environment. Things are harsh and we should not be living in this environment but we are all guilty because we kept quiet for a long time and let riffraffs rule us. God has given you a talent as an entertainer and you are meant to use the platform well. I have been doing it for 38 years and I found my niche because I used fame as a platform; I needed quick fame and I was tired of living under any-body’s shadow.’
