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Ibinabo should resign as AGN president, says Clarion Chukwurah

Notable actress, Clarion Chukwurah has criticised the recent visit, to Aso Villa, by President of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ms Ibinabo Fiberesima, saying it was politically motivated.
Among other probing issues, Chukwurah is faulting Ibinabo’s claim that AGN is the umbrella body for screen actors in Nigeria; a statement which she said demeaned the existence of an older association, the Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (ANTP).
In a two-page release titled: IBINABO FIBERESIMA AND THE AGN VISIT TO PRESIDENT GEJ: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT, Chukwurah said although President Jonathan’s funding of the movie industry has aided the development of Nollywood, Fiberesima’s request for an Abuja secretariat for the AGN, as well as political appointments for actors was uncalled for.
Fiberesima, in the company of other guild members, was at the Villa on February 17, to confer the Grand Patron of AGN on the president. It was at that meeting that the request for an AGN Headquarters in Abuja was made. The AGN leader, in a later correspondence, said the request was meant to better the lots of other associations in the industry, as she is in talks with their leaderships on the need to unionise.
Apparently embattled, Fiberesima noted that leading people is not easy, especially in the creative sector. “Just recently, some miscreants and election losers gathered in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, under the aegis of OLD Chairmen to pass a Vote of no Confidence on me,” she said.
Chukwurah’s attack on Fiberesima is the latest in a series of criticisms that trail the leadership of the Rivers State-born actress, whose rise to the top as not ceased to amaze many.