Foluke Daramola-Salako's Husband Defends Her After Backlash Over Tinubu Support

Kayode Salako, the husband of actress Foluke Daramola-Salako, has defended her after she was attacked online for purportedly supporting APC National Leader Bola Tinubu's 'presidential bid.'

Last week, Foluke attracted backlash after a video of her and her colleagues chanting Tinubu's praises went viral. This was after it was reported that Tinubu is intending to run for president in 2023.

Her husband, Kayode, sent an open letter to Nigerians in which he stated that they are allowed to hate who they want but he and his wife should be free to love who they chose and be able to display it in a democracy.

He noted that working against Tinubu's interests would be difficult because he is a benefactor to their family and that they would prefer not back any political candidate than be against Tinubu.

He further stated that because Tinubu is not the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Nigerians could not continue to blame him for the consequences of the Lekki toll gate tragedy on October 20, 2020.

Part of the letter reads:

''Dear Nigerians,

FROM MY OWN SIDE ABOUT FOLUKE AND THE SOCIAL BASHING SHE'S CURRENTLY RECEIVING WITH HER INVOLVEMENT IN THE POLITICS OF THE COMING 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Foluke Daramola Salako has been involved in politics for almost every part of her life. This is also evident in her student days at the Obafemi Awolowo university where she started playing politics, contested elections and won to become the Director of Socials in the Student Union Government of the school during the period.

I met her as a politically inclined person 10 years ago, and she has lived with me like that ever since.

We are both involved in politics because that is what the the prevalent Nigerian system is encouraging all Nigerians to do.

We must continue to work with others politically for the purpose of contributing to the advancement of our country's democratic process and the business of building and ideal Nigeria together.

We are in politics because the system is encouraging everybody to get involved and participate in it.

However, Foluke hasn't ever done PDP before or operated in any other party, but historically the ruling party in Lagos, where she is based and runs her things. That is also the same way it is with me.

Like me, her hubby, she has been a card-carrying member of APC since the first month the party has been existing in Nigeria.

We both registered to work as members of the party on the same day in 2014 just because we believe it is the best political platform for all the politically inclined progressives in Nigeria.

Before APC was created, we were members of the then defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) party, which Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was the founder and the leader.

All our lives, we have never done PDP or any other party before. We have always worked politically on the side of anything that has to do with Bola Tinubu's school of political ideology and progressive movement.

Politically, that is our own religious brand of the divide.

So, Foluke and I, have always been on the side of what we believe is the right side of the political divide in Nigeria.

We have always been on the side of the progressive political movement in the country. We have always been where Bola Tinubu's progressive school of political ideology and movement have been in the country.

We haven't worked anywhere else before since we've been involved in politics in Nigeria. We have always been where the intrest of Bola Tinubu's political inclinations lie since 1999.

We are still involved in politics. We are still APC. And, right now, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the national leader of the party, except those Nigerians who castigate people for being in the party of their choices have viable alternative political platforms for Nigerians like us.

If it is wrong to be a member of APC or PDP, can you then give us another political platfrom existing in Nigeria right now where at the end of the day we won't go and waste our reasons for involvement, time and other material resources in the participation.

As I submit this piece, Bola Tinubu hasn't formally come out to declare for the race of the 2023 presidential election.

He is yet to do that. And our party has not announced its presidential flagbearer still.

So, those Nigerians who are already attacking, cursing and bashing other Nigerians for who they like to associate with politically should give themselves peace.

It is not yet clear to anyone, who is going to be the next president of Nigeria. Even all the political parties are not yet sure. None is sure about it..."

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