Nollywood actor Hanks Anuku has thrown his weight behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, telling The Honest Bunch podcast that Nigerians are in too much of a hurry and that the president should be allowed to finish his tenure.
A clip from the Glitch Africa show circulating online captures Anuku defending the administration even as a host suggested critics would accuse him of being paid. The actor brushed that aside and doubled down.
“Paid? How many people can be better than him? Most people who are going to come after him might even be worse off. The devil you know is better.”
He said help is hard to find in Nigeria and that he has chosen his side.
“It’s difficult for anyone in Nigeria to help you. I’ll stick with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Nigeria has to be patient for the renewal of this man. The country was not spoilt by him. There were people there before him. Why weren’t they attacked? He has to fix the mess he met.”
Asked whether he thought Tinubu was doing enough, Anuku did not hedge.
“He’s doing great. We need to be patient. We’re too much in a hurry. I’m going to be hanging with Mr President. He has to serve his complete tenure.”
The political defence sat beside a more private reckoning. Anuku spoke about the death of the mother of his children, a loss he has already described in public this year.
“When I lost the mother of my children, it hurt a lot. I was depressed a bit. It’s all good, God loves me.”
In July, during a testimony at the Mountain of God International Ministry in Abuja, he said he had wanted to marry her and that her death came too soon. He described her as the mother of his son and daughter, and said the grief nearly pushed him into isolation.
On the podcast, he was asked if he ever reached out to friends for closure. His answer was blunt.
“Reach out to do what? From friends who betrayed me? Some want you dead. Some want you to go mad.”
The appearance lands after a long stretch in which Anuku’s private struggles played out in public, including old clips of him looking distressed that the show itself cut into the segment. At 64, he has framed those years as trauma, grief, and a later turn toward faith.