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If Emeka Ike is to be believed, Ibinabo Fiberesima isn't exactly the best President of the Actors' Guild of Nigeria. The Nollywood actor has expressed his unhappiness with what he describes as the "biblical Sodom and Gomorrah" which has been brought into play in the Guild. He said producers sleep with actresses before giving them roles, and homosexuality is rampant in the industry.
The Imo descendant says he has been waging a war with the body since he declared intent to lead the Guild, but he is still convinced he is the 'chosen one' to save "a dying movie industry."
Emeka Ike is seen as something of a divergent, a rebel of sorts, and he is going to heighten this perception in his one-man war to 'rehabilitate' the dying Nollywood industry.
Speaking with journalists at the second edition of the City People's Political Award which was recently held in Lagos, he said that a few people were runing the industry like their personal property, operating it like a fiefdom and keeping a clamp on things. He went all out, mentioning names of the people he knew were responsible.
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.
Below are quote attributed to him:
"My first concern is to clean up Nollywood, clean up AGN. Every Nigerian youth want sto 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."
The Imo descendant says he has been waging a war with the body since he declared intent to lead the Guild, but he is still convinced he is the 'chosen one' to save "a dying movie industry."
Emeka Ike is seen as something of a divergent, a rebel of sorts, and he is going to heighten this perception in his one-man war to 'rehabilitate' the dying Nollywood industry.
Speaking with journalists at the second edition of the City People's Political Award which was recently held in Lagos, he said that a few people were runing the industry like their personal property, operating it like a fiefdom and keeping a clamp on things. He went all out, mentioning names of the people he knew were responsible.
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.
Below are quote attributed to him:
"My first concern is to clean up Nollywood, clean up AGN. Every Nigerian youth want sto 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."
