The award winning actor, producer cum director while addressing a cross-section of Nigerian students on the basic requirements for success, said politics, for him, started seven years ago. “It took me seven good years to secure a seat in the Lagos State House of Assembly.
That is the truth. It didn’t happen just like that. I had to work and work. It started when I met one of the governors who won his case at the election tribunal.
There I met him and pleaded to work with him and even more. Eventually, he accepted me and offered to introduce me to the leaders of his party. “I met the leaders of the party and they taught me how to go about it; what and what to do. I made sure I obliged and stuck to the rules and today the rest, they say, is history,” Elliot said.
On what Nigerian youths must do to succeed, he said, “There is a need for every Nigerian youth to be skilled. It is very important, because the truth I will tell you all today is that there is no job anywhere, not even in government.
In less than six weeks in my office as an honourable member of the house, I can tell you, I have received over 100 CVs as if I am the one creating jobs. “Please, let us be employers of labour. Let’s learn a trade or something.
It could be carpentry, fashion, anything you enjoy doing, and if it’s music or movies, make sure you have the right orientation.
For example, I have been in Nollywood for years, despite being at the peak of it, it was just two years ago I had to take out sometime to go and do a professional course in acting and directing; after which, my career changed for good.
So, I am urging everyone of you to take the bull by the horn. “Do not take chances, there’s a life out there. After your few years in school, a jungle which if you must survive it, you got to face it, taking the right steps,” he told the cheering crowd.
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