Tonto Dikeh, a well-known Nollywood actress, has declared that she will continue to run for office until she succeeds.
Tonto, the African Democratic Congress’s deputy candidate for governor of Rivers State in the 2023 election, acknowledged that her chances of leading the oil-rich state in the future were both good and limited because politics is unsavory.
During the GOTNI national leadership conference, which was organized by its National Leadership Centre with the theme “Leadership for sustainability,” Dikeh made these claims in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
She said, “One of the things I learnt (in contesting the election) is resilience and never giving up. I know after four years, they will forget about me and that, ‘she is not going to come back.’ But I am going to come back. Every four years, I am going to come back. I will come back and I will be in their faces. I will be coming back to the contest.
“My chances (of becoming governor) are high and slim because politics is dirty. It’s not going to be free and fair. (Nyesom) Wike’s candidate didn’t win free and fair. So I don’t expect politics to be free and fair, but I expect that, as someone said, having a lion’s heart requires taking the lion’s share.
“I won’t care what they think about my position, I will keep having the lion’s share, whether it is my personal life or politics, I am here to stay and they have no choice but to accept it.”