Comedy actor, John Okafor, has fired back at the
president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo
Fiberesima, calling her a “small girl.”
Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu, said Ibinabo just
registered as a member of AGN only when she became
interested to rule the Rivers State chapter of the guild.
“I was the chief coach for AGN for four years. If I’m not a
member, why would I be appointed? She is just looking for
something to hold. The issue is that she is a small girl,
she doesn’t know anything and I was trying to correct her
but she was seeing it as if I was abusing her.
“I am not abusing her; she is a good person, I must tell
you. But she does not know what administration is all
about, she should leave it. I’m only respecting her
because of the people who are connected to how she
became the president of the Guild, otherwise I would have
told her straight that she can’t do it.
“How can she be the president of AGN and all the states
have two chairmen each and she cannot resolve the
conflict and the Board of Trustees is not in order. They are
not one and she cannot resolve it?
“She selects people and gives them post. It is not proper
and she is killing herself the more. If she cannot rule, let
her come down. Everything about this Guild is what you
know.”
Reacting to the issue of going to Aso Rock to beg for
money, as Ibinabo insinuated last week, Mr Ibu said, “I
have never been to Aso Rock before, so I don’t even know
how the buildings are. If she wants to go for second term,
no problem but I told her instead of going there to make
more enemies for herself, let her stop. If she wants to go,
it’s not my business. Was I the one that took her to court?
She has about three cases lying in the court as I speak to
you. I’m not the one that took her to court. I don’t
pretend.”