“Tinubu Should Drive Personal Car, Politicians Shouldn’t Receive Salaries” – Adeyanju

Activist lawyer Deji Adeyanju has made a striking proposal that no political office holder in Nigeria should be paid salaries. Speaking on The Honest Bunch podcast, Adeyanju emphasized that politics should be about service, urging President Bola Tinubu to set an example by driving his personal car.

“No politician should be paid a salary in Nigeria because we are a poor country,” Adeyanju declared. “Politics is about service. Even the president should drive his personal car; we shouldn’t be buying official vehicles for government people. Anybody that becomes president, at that level, is no longer poor.”

Adeyanju criticized the current political culture, where politicians treat their roles as full-time jobs and employ a large number of aides. He pointed out that principal officers in the National Assembly alone have over 2,000 aides. “Politicians are treating it as a full-time job, and not only are we paying them, they now have 10-20 aides each,” he noted.

Drawing on the example of Kenya, where public pressure led the president to beg for financial prudence, Adeyanju called on Nigerian citizens to demand similar accountability from their government.