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| CHUKWURAH |
Actress Clarion Chukwurah has called on the current
President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria(AGN) Ibinabo Fiberisima, to resign
from office as she has been appointed into a political office by President
Jonathan. Ibinabo apointed by President Jonathan on the board of the National
Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) on February 26th.
In a two-page statement she released titled, Ibinabo and the
AGN visit to President GEJ: Setting The Record Straight, Clarion Chukwurah said
since Ibinabo has received the Federal Government's appointment, it is expected
of her to vacate office as AGN President and face her new appointment, as
Onyeka Onwenu and Kanayo O Kanayo her predecessors did.
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| PRESIDENT JONATHAN AND IBINABO |
"The AGN was not established as a platform to canvass
for political appointments or pursue selfish interests. Ms Onyeka Onwenu and Mr
Kanayo O. Kanayo listed as examples in her address, became card carrying
members of PDP and pursued the realization of PDP’s political goals to obtain
their appointments. Ms Ibinabo Fiberisima should resign as AGN president for
her brazen use of a body 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 named predecessors, by joining the PDP and testing the
real value of her self-earned popularity as an actress for political
appointment,” she said.
She also expressed her displeasure 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,” said Chukwurah
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