Human rights
activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, has advised Nigerian presidential
candidates seeking office in 2019 to listen to the late legendary musician,
Fela’s music, to get solutions to the nation’s problems.
Falana gave the advice
during the 2018 Felabration tagged Fela @80: Overtaking Overtake, at the Fela
debates titled: “African Leadership in the Millennium” in Lagos.
He said that the late Fela
had foreseen Nigeria’s problems. Falana added that Fela warned about the
challenges and proffered solutions to such problems in his music before his
death.
Fela, who was
born on October 15, 1938 and died on August 2, 1997, was the pioneer of the
Afrobeat music genre and a human rights activist.
Falana said:
“I want most of these
presidential aspirants to listen to Fela’s music very well. That’s where they
can find solutions to most of our problems.
“Our country is rich as
Fela sang in his music, but our people are still hungry and poor; you must
understand our society before you can lead us.”
Falana urged young
Nigerians to get organised so that the sky would be their starting point.
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