Actor Emeka Ike has slammed AGN president, Ibinabo
Fibreisima and other Nollywood bigwigs for allegedly
pulling Nollywood down.
He further accused some producers of sleeping with
actresses as a prerequisite for offering them roles.
Speaking to Journalists at the 2nd edition of the City
People’s Political Award held recently in Lagos, Emeka
who wants to be AGN president said: “There are five
people who have taken the laws of Nigerian movie
industry into their hands. They are Emma Ogugua,
Murphy Stephen, Sunny McDon, Okey Bakassi and
Ifeanyi Dikeh. These five people registered Actors
Guild of Nigeria as their personal business. No other
individual can come in. My first concern is to clean up
Nollywood, clean up AGN. Every Nigerian youth want
to act movies now, what future are we leaving for
them? Where are they going to write their names? The
two bedroom in Surulere where they would ask you to
come and grace their beds before they give you roles?
Where they would make you join a gay group or
lesbian group before they talk to you?
“Nollywood has gotten so bad that you must either strip
and grace their beds or join the gay or lesbian group to
belong.”
“The people at the helm of affairs are the ones killing
Nollywood. Some of us the well-known actors don’t
even know their rights. I dare say it again, they don’t.
Nobody can come out to challenge me.”
“We built this industry with pain. Those who are at the
helm of affairs now, people don’t even know them in
the movies. They just came in and messed everything
up.”
“Ibinabo has been acting as the president of AGN for
years now, but with her case as an ex-convict, do you
have any moral justification to recognize her as the
president? The court case is still on and the war
continues.”
“That wasn’t the industry I founded. My daughter will
not to go into that industry tomorrow and they would
say she must sleep with one of them to get a role.
Neither would my son be a part of Nollywood that is
full of immoralities,” he said.
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