{"id":377054,"date":"2021-07-24T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=377054"},"modified":"2021-07-24T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:21:33","slug":"why-i-left-nigerian-politics-actor-jim-iyke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=377054","title":{"rendered":"Why I left Nigerian politics &#8211; Actor, Jim Iyke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke has said he ended his political career to avoid selling or compromising his soul.<br \/>\nThe actor, who joined the Young Democratic Party when he began his political career in 2014, made this known during an interview with BBC Igbo on Friday.<br \/>\nAccording to him, Nigerian politics is a dirty game characterized by violence, rigging, bribery, corruption, and other manipulations perpetrated by politicians.<br \/>\n\u201cI tried doing politics but what I was required to compromise was almost like selling your soul. I\u2019m principled.<br \/>\n\u201cThe day my people summon me to serve, then I come out. If there\u2019s a jungle on earth, it\u2019s Anambra politics. It\u2019s a different game,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe actor further said he does not want to be a puppet in the hands of any godfather, fearing that the game could consume him in the long run.<br \/>\n\u201cI know that if I foray into politics, it\u2019s either it consumes me or I get what I want.<br \/>\n\u201cHowever, I don\u2019t want to be desperate or have a godfather play me around like a puppet. I don\u2019t want to stain myself,\u201d Iyke added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke has said he ended his political career to avoid selling or compromising his soul. The actor, who joined the Young Democratic Party when he began his political career in 2014, made this known during an interview with BBC Igbo on Friday. According to him, Nigerian politics is a dirty game characterized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,17093],"class_list":["post-377054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-jim-iyke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/377055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}