For the 2023 election, Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele also known Jenifa, has been nominated as one of the potential running mates to the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate, Alhaji Abdulaziz Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor.
Fubke’s name is among the six persons shortlisted by the Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Other names in the list include the former governorship aspirant, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour; former Senatorial candidate for Lagos East, Yeye Shobajo, another governorship aspirant, David Kolawole Vaughan a.k.a DAKOVA, and Engr. Teslim Balogun.
Actress Funke’s political inclusion follows that of her colleague, Tonto Dikeh, who was selected as her party’s 2023 Deputy Governorship candidate in Rivers State earlier last week.