Clarion Chukwurah again calls out Ibinabo Fiberisima, signifies interest to contest for her sit

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Few weeks after releasing a statement criticizing Ibinabo Fiberisima's actions as the president of Actors Guild of Nigeria, actress Clarion Chukwurah in an interview with NETng again took a swipe at Ibinabo and also revealed plans to run fIt 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 or President of the AGN after Ibinabo's tenure ends.

should put the experience and information to use to move the AGN forward. The first thing I intend doing is to bring together experienced actors who are trained lawyers like Tunji Bamishigbin, Wale Adebayo, Richard Mofe Damijo, Funke Akindele and a couple of others, to sit down and look at the issue of legislation, put together a bill to the National Assembly and drive it at the level of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. This bill will be driven to a logical conclusion till it is understood by even a lay man. For instance, everybody knows that there is the need for a single body to be representatives of the Sreen Actors of Nigeria like the Screen Actors Guild of America. Another thing I shall do is to ensure that there are transparent and professional conditions by which actors can be employed in this country and that will involve advocating for people of interest in running casting agencies to come and register with the guild and set up such. These agencies must be headed by trained and qualified people and they will be passed to movie producers and marketers because they will be in charge of casting for movies" she said.