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Nollywood actress Clarion Chukwurah urged the current President of the
Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ibinabo Fiberisima, to resign from office
as she has received a political appointment from President Jonathan. Chukwurah made this claim in a two-page statement titled “Ibinabo and the AGN visit to President GEJ: Setting The Record Straight”.
She said that said since Ibinabo has received a governmental appointment, it is expected of her to leave the post of the AGN President and face her new duties, just like Ms Onyeka Onwenu and Mr Kanayo O. Kanayo, her predecessors, did.
“The AGN was not established as a platform to canvass for political appointments or pursue selfish interests,” the actress noted.She also expressed her disappointment at Ibinabo taking some actors to the Presidential Villa, an act she saw as going to literally begging for crumbs.
“While it is not surprising that Ibinabo Fiberisima will 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 10 titles to her credit in a career spanning from the late 80s, it is however surprising that the established actors within her entourage 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,” Chukwurah said.It would be recalled that Ibinabo was appointed by President Jonathan on the board of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) on February 26, 2014.
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