Weeks
after some members of the Actors
Guild of Nigeria,AGN, led by its
president, Miss Ibinabo Fiberesima paid a courtesy visit to President
Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, veteran actress, Clarion Chukwura has
expressed her dissatisfaction with the move.
She
described the visit as uncalled for, adding that it was not in the best interest of the industry.
According
to Chukwura, AGN is not the guild that represents the English movie actors, the Association of Nigerian Theartre Arts
Practitioners ANTAP, and Kannywood.
In
a statement she made available to HVP, Chukwura said, “I read with dismay the address of president
of AGN, Miss Ibinabo Fiberisima on a recent visit with some notable actors and
AGN officials to the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
It
is alarming to discover from this address, the false claims by Ibinabo that the Actors Guild of Nigeria is the only
umbrella body of Nigerian screen actors; that President Goodluck Jonathan has
by the “constant release of funds” effected a sustained development of the
Nigerian movie industry since the inception of his administration; that an AGN
Secretariat located in Abuja and political appointments for actors would
advance the welfare of the Nigerian screen actors. While it is not surprising
that Ibinabo would display such a lack of knowledge of what advances screen
actors professionally in the developed world since she has not functioned
consistently as an actor and has less than ten titles to her credit in a career
spanning from the late eighties.”
Chukwura,
however, blamed established actors who were in her entourage. “They watched in
compliance, the denigration of the integrity of Nigerian screen actors, as she
read her requests literally begging for crumbs from the president’s table,” she
said.
For
her, AGN was not established as a platform to canvass for political
appointments or pursue selfish interests. She, therefore, called for Ibinabo’s
resignation as AGN president.”For her brazen use of a Guild created to serve
the creative interests of a group to gain political appointment while in
office, I enjoin her to follow the respectable road of her predecessors by
joining the PDP and testing the real
value of her self-earned popularity as an
actress for political appointment…”
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