Mr. Ibu, Ibinabo Fiberesima at war

 Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) President, Ibinabo Fiberesima has said that comic actor, John Okafor a.k.a Mr. Ibu exhibited extreme ignorance in a recent interview he granted. 

Mr. Ibu had in an interview with Encomium Weekly, described Fiberesima’s tenure as ‘unrewarding for members of the guild’ and advised her against going for a second term, ‘It is better for her not to come again. She should leave the office and allow another person to try. No progress at all. I am not part of it’ he said.

He also queried what Ibinabo did with the money given to the guild by President Goodluck Jonathan and a few other state governments.

But Fiberesima has fired back at Mr. Ibu. In an interview she granted PUNCH, she said: “Which money is he talking about? That is why I said he is detached from the realities on ground. When we went to visit the President, there was no money promised to anybody. We didn’t go there to beg for money as Mr. Ibu is used to doing; we didn’t do that. They push you to the extent that you say things that you don’t want to. I’m not about money, for once they should stop and think, see what my team and I have achieved in two years.”

The AGN President then said that her second term ambition was not can not be threatened by Mr. Ibu, saying:“Mr. Ibu cannot vote for me, he does not have the power to do that. He cannot even run for office because he is not a member, and I was expecting to see the names of the members whom he referred to because I don’t know them, and I hope they are members of the Guild because we have actors who are not members.

You should not because of your interest in a name feel you can come out and talk off point to become relevant. When people say people should have education, it is for this kind of reason so they will know how to speak in public.

They think running to the press and running me down on Facebook and others will deter me. No. I was not brought up like that, I’m a very thorough breed. I will do what I have to do to get to where I am going. It is the love that I get from people whose lives I have touched that keeps me going, not those who don’t know where they are going, because every sentence they make is money, where is the money?”