Why I rejected political offers that could have made me billionaire — Omotola Jalade

Veteran Nollywood histrion Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has revealed that she turned down respective lucrative offers, including those linked to politics, that could person “easily” made her a billionaire.

Speaking connected an occurrence of the Afropolitan podcast, the movie prima said she rejected the offers due to the fact that she did not privation to compromise her principles.

She explained that immoderate of the offers were “not needfully bad” but she inactive turned them down due to the fact that accepting them could, successful the agelong run, dilute what she represents.

“If I wanted to beryllium a billionaire, I would person been 1 easily. Because I person been successful situations wherever nary 1 would person known and I would person taken things and compromised my stance. But I would crook it down and locomotion away. Many times. Even successful politics.

“I americium talking astir galore times wherever I could person compromised my stance and got paid handsomely for it. But I said, ‘No.’ Sometimes, they are not needfully atrocious things. They are conscionable things that would conscionable stone your instauration oregon content systems.

“Sometimes, I americium tempted to compromise due to the fact that they don’t look bad, but I would inactive wa...