2019: I Am Not A Politician And I Will Never Be – Fela Durotoye

Mr. Fela Durotoye, the 2019 Presidential Candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), has declared on Wednesday that he is not a politician.

Durotoye, said this in an interview with NAN in Lagos on the sidelines of the 2018 The Future Awards Africa in Lagos where he was a guest.

The ANN presidential candidate revealed his intention for contesting Nigeria’s presidency is to represent a generational change in the leadership structure of Nigeria away from politics.

He urged Nigerians to vote only people who would deliver dividends of democracy across all levels of governance and not those who will fight for their selfish interests.

“I have said it that I am not a politician and will never be a politician. I am a nation builder.

“I have always insisted that there is a need to take politics out of governance. We need nation builders so that we can have policy formulators and not politics.

“I think it is policies that change the life of the people and not politics, the economy of the nation is in the hands of the policy articulators not the politicians.

“We should be thinking of those that are ready to build this country through good policies and look away from the politicians who are just to milk the country.”

“We need honest people in governance, those that know the onions of good governance. So, in this light we need to talk to our people at the grassroots and educate them.

“There is a call to action because everybody’s grass has its roots and it is our responsibility to make the call for the desired change.

“The change we are talking about is not about me but the whole generation of which I belong to, my presidential race is generational.

“I am frank person and honest, I want everyone to do what is right and engage in the right attitude; we should speak out on what we want to change about governance in Nigeria,’’ he said.