Few days ago, music star, Adigun Abolore, better known as 9ice publicly declared his intention of going into politics. The news has been raising dust, but the singer has revealed that he is leaving music for politics for a good reason.
According to him, he feels he has achieved all he wanted in music and needed to go for other challenges, which lie in politics.
The Ogbomosho, Oyo State star will be hoping to represent his hometown constituency at the National Assembly in 2015, when the next general election takes place.
In recent times, the music career of 9ice has been on the low side. He has struggled to regain the top spot he used to control some years ago when he released ‘Gongo Aso’
Adigun Abolore, better known as 9ice has made it abundantly clear that he is bidding music bye to face politics. 9ice had publicly declared his intention of going into politics few days ago. And since then, The declaration has been raising dust.
According to him, he feels he has achieved all he wanted in music and needed to go for other challenges, which lies in politics.
The Ogbomosho, Oyo State born star will be hoping to represent his hometown constituency at the National Assembly in 2015, when the next general election takes place.
Though in recent times his music career has been on the low side. He has struggled to re gearing up to take part in the global music phenomenon.
Nigerian Idol is believed to be the biggest music show across Africa. This year it will go across cities in the country in search of undiscovered, brilliant and outstanding singers. While rave-of-the-moment VJ, Ill Rhymz returns this season as host, a co-host will be announced at a later date. However, the cycle of the show remain the same, spanning five months of tough drillings, surprise evictions, grueling rehearsals and awesome performances.
According to Rotimi Pedro, C.E.O Optima Media Group, “The forth season of Nigerian Idol will be an even more exciting television experience. The last three seasons of the show garnered more viewership, especially with the youth demographic, than any other music reality show – reemphasizing the power of the Idol brand across the globe.”
“As the World’s no 1 TV show, we are committed to ensuring that the standards from the past three seasons – in terms of content, production and interactivity are surpassed with Season 4. This is Idol – it’s the real deal.” He continued.
With Nigerian Idol this season, everyone is a winner as sponsor Etisalat together with other sponsors will give premium prizes not just to the winner, but also to the runners-up and others from the Top Ten.
The winner of the show gets N7.5 million cash prize, a Galaxy Tab, a Blackberry, an iPod and a brand new SUV car. The first runner up will get N1.5 million prize, a Galaxy Tab, Blackberry and iPod; and the 2nd runner up will receive N1 million, a Galaxy Tab, a Blackberry and an iPod. In addition, each of the finalists from fourth to 10th place will also receive N100, 000, a Galaxy Tab, a Blackberry and an iPod.
Judges for the show will be announced later, say organisers. Nigerian Idol season IV airs from February through June 2014, where a winner will be announced at an elaborate grand finale event.