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Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie has endorsed, Yul, his son, for the 2023 presidential race.
Yul made this known in a video he shared on his social media pages on Thursday.
“My Father Chief Pete Edochie endorses my 2023 Presidential ambition… God Almighty, take absolute control,” he captioned the post.
In the less than 3-minute footage, Pete revealed that the endorsement follows unending pleas from young people asking him to openly support his son’s bid for the presidency.
The veteran actor also expressed confidence that his son possess the right values and drive to move the country forward.
According to him, he is not interested in politics, but he would not hold back his support for Yul who has decided to go into it.
“My values are very strong. I have my own children and they are very strong in that regard too. I am not one to be involved in politics. But you see, not all your children are bound to follow you,” he said.
“One of my sons, who incidentally is an actor, has decided that he wants to be a politician. Most of the youngsters have been bugging my phone asking me to endorse my son that they want him as president and l get amused. But they keep insisting daddy, we want Yul to be the president of this country.
“We like him. He is disciplined, sympathetic, he believes a lot in people. They have bothered me so much that today, I’m hereby present him to you. He has my blessing. He has my endorsement.
“Any day he decides to veer off from the discipline under which he was raised, l will withdraw him from the race. It shall be well with you son. Since it has been your ambition to go into politics and the desire to run for the presidency of this country, may the good Lord assist you, protect and direct you.”
In 2018, the actor turned politician had declared interest to run for the office of the presidency in the 2019 election under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) party.
He later ditched the ambition — a decision which according to him was arrived at “after due consultation”.
Before his presidential bid, he had contested for the Anambra state governorship election in 2017 under the flag of the Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC) but lost after securing only 145 votes.
Yul was appointed the senior special assistant on creative and entertainment media to the Governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, in 2018.
The actor, however, resigned a few months later and defected from APGA to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that his decision was in a bid to support the presidential ambition of Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, who was the candidate of the party.
Earlier this year, Yul once again declared his interest to run for president in 2023.
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