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MUMA GEE

"Chioma Chukwuka was demonic in camp" - Muma Gee

[b]"Before Ultimate Search, I'd never been in contact with Chioma Akpotha. Maybe I'd only seen her in movies and I used to be her fan, a great fan because in movies she acts innocently. But trust me, she has lost a fan. I will never forget that girl till I die, till I enter my grave. With all she claimed to be, she's not my class, we are not from the same tribe, we don't share boyfriend, we don't drag anything. In the camp she was boasting she's married and I'm not married. Maybe she's the first to marry in life. She flung my things out of the tent (because of a misunderstanding with actor Emeka ike). I looked at her and cried almost ceaselessly. That pained me to the bone and I will never forget. Honestly, I've never suffered that kind of humiliation since I was born, not even when I was poor. Whatever pain I suffered that day will follow that girl. If Chioma would come and give me a billion dollars and I'm dying in poverty, I would rather die. She was really demonic in that camp".
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If you are watching Gulder Ultimate Search - Celebrity Showdown, then you understand what this is all about,

Chioma and Muma Gee have been evicted from the show by the way, 

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CHIOMA


I’m not a bit_CH–Chioma

The Gulder Ultimate Search for celebrities was quite an experience for Chioma Chukwuka. It was an opportunity for her to show her fans and others who care to listen that she is no pushover. She still has a lot to offer as she reveals in this interview. Excerpts:

Why were you so unnecessarily vocal during GUS? You were so vocal. Was that deliberate?
It was deliberate. It was part of my strategy and it worked for me because everybody sees Chioma as quiet.

Everybody thinks Chioma cries and if you notice at the initial stage, I was trying to see if the “quiet” thing would work, but it didn’t because that was the jungle and in the jungle, anything goes. So I had to switch to my initial plan and it worked for me. I did my job very well. It was a strategy and I will still stick to it anytime any day.

How did you know it worked for you?
When the opportunity came for me to be a part of the Gulder Ultimate Search, I was like yes, this is the platform for me to tell people that Chioma is not a stereotype of an actor. Chioma can do something different from what we are used to seeing. She cannot just cry, she can be hot, she can be fierce she can put it to your face and truthfully that is not just who I am, that is just what I do. My friends know me and I cannot change. I cannot change at my age and after all everybody has that point. Even in your home, you are defensive one moment and the next you are not. You cannot be defensive at all times but the substance that makes you will still be there. That is not the case with an actor. Our lives are different from what we do.

I was really surprised with what you did in the camp though I knew you are not totally “buti” but I was expecting at least a little of “effizy” from you as a Nollywood diva.

As I said earlier, we were in the jungle, so all the “effizy”; all the “feferity” were left at home. When we were trying to enter the camp, we left it at the entrance to pick it when we are going home. Why you didn’t see that was because I had a strategy, I didn’t want everybody to see me the way they see me everyday. You know a problem we have in Nollywood is to stereotype a person.

They actually write a script with you in mind. Okay there was this script I had and they forgot to write the character’s name they just wrote my name there. You know that is just the height of stereotyping. I didn’t want that, I just needed this platform to tell the world that okay Chioma needs to be out of this box. It doesn’t change who I am and it doesn’t change who I have been. It is just that I want you guys to see me in another light; it doesn’t affect my person. GUS provided that platform and I grabbed it.

Is it true that while going in for GUS you said you were just going there for a day and you would leave but on getting there, you were extremely competitive you wanted to win? So did anything change your experience when you entered the house or you never planned to go in there just to pass time?

Like I said earlier, I went in with a strategy and if GUS was all about the task that we were given to do: everybody running, who got the flag, who came down the plank first and all that, a lot of people won’t be watching and because of my strategy, because of the plan I went there with, I generated a lot of buzz for GUS and that is why a lot of people were glued to their TV sets just to watch and you will see, the remaining episodes after my eviction will be very boring. It was not a plan I had in camp, it was a plan I had to work for me like I told you. I just wanted to go in there to showcase myself as a different character so that people will know that Chioma can do something different from what they are used to.

Did you plan to win?
Everybody there planned to win. Those of us that were evicted were just unfortunate that we did not make it to the end, so that is it. There has to be a winner and there has to be a loser.

Did you feel disappointed?
I felt a little bit disappointed at the point when I was leaving. But as I speak, I feel very okay.

Looking at your face when you were leaving, I thought you wanted to make up with Muma Gee?
There was no quarrel, so there was no need to make up to anyone. Like I said earlier, it was my strategy, we were cool before the camp and we are cool outside the camp.

Have you gals spoken since?
We were not on speaking terms before the search, so, I don’t understand.

Do you have a cordial relationship with Emeka?
Of course, as a colleague, we have a working relationship

Do you think this will bring the ‘ferocious’ on the rooftop like the Muma Gee and Eucharia kind of role?
Well, yes. The roles have started coming; I don’t think you are getting me. It is not that it will change my person; it’s just to let people know that I can do this. The roles are coming and if it is within the confines of what I can do, I’ll do it.

But has the platform GUS offered started ‘working the magic’?
Yes. Everybody now knows that Chioma is not quiet, Chioma is not stereotyped. She can do something different.

How has life been for you? You are one of the few ones I know who doesn’t ‘keep friends’. You are one of the few who doesn’t live where other Nollywood persons live.
That is what works for me. Let the Chioma that people know be the Chioma that people know and me and my family. Let me cherish that, because they are all I have. I can’t share everything with people; I can’t share my family with the public. They can let me have that, can’t they? My life alone is enough to share with the world not to talk of my life and my family.

Has the strategy of separating your home from work been working for you; though it won’t be fair to say it is only in Nollywood that marriages fail?
Truthfully, I believe my strategies didn’t do that. It is God. When it comes to marriage, career and stuffs like that, there is no particular plan. I just feel it’s God’s favour. That is what I believe and things are working for me and I thank God for that.

How does it feel to be a mom?
It’s wonderful. It is not an experience that you can share; it is better experienced. I thank God for my family and for everything He has deemed fit for me to have.

How do you juggle everything you do with Nollywood, and I learnt you still go to the market. How true is that?
(Chuckles) Of course, I have to go to the market. I have to cook for my people. How I juggle it? It has not been very easy, but I thank God for the kind of family I have. They are very understanding and they know my job can be very demanding. So, sometimes they have to let mummy go and come back. They miss me when I’m not around; they just hold on for me when I’m not around.
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As a stakeholder and as an actor, what do you think is wrong with Nollywood?[/img]
What is happening to Nollywood is what is happening everywhere in the world. It is the social crisis we are experiencing: the recession. People thought it won’t hit Nigeria, so when it did, it hit us very bad. Some people are acting as if it took them unawares, but we had been warned and it is affecting every part of the country.

Nollywood happens to be part of it; but it is not completely down. It is just that we are going back to retrace our steps and to find out where we missed it and to correct it, hoping that we will have a new Nollywood that will stay, that won’t be moved, that won’t crash in spite everything that is happening around the country.

A new Nollywood that will have a voice for the masses, that will have a voice for the country, a new Nollywood that will stand as a channel with which to correct ills that are happening in the society because I stand for good morals, discipline. I stand for the family and our norms. I believe in our culture, so it is going to be big. It might take time but when we come back it will be. So it’s not completely down.

I didn’t see you at 2009 AMAA awards?
I wasn’t there in 2009 because I was not in the country and in 2010; I was at the location I wasn’t given the opportunity to attend. I hope to attend by 2011.

When you look back at the years when you were not an actor and now, what comes to your mind?
I have been in the industry for ten years and looking back, first of all I will say I have no regrets. I love the peace I’ve had, I love the growth I’ve had and I love my consistency. Basically, it was not easy at the beginning because I didn’t have any godfather or anybody that will say let me get this for you, let me get that for you. But on my own and definitely with God by my side, I got to where I am today. It’s been challenging but it’s worth it. I paid my dues and you can’t say you’ve stopped paying your dues.

What did you pay?
What do you think I paid? Do you think after my first movie that was it? You didn’t know that after my first movie I was still moving from auditions and all that? After my first movie, I didn’t do any other movie until the following year. So people thought because I started with the lead role, it would be easy. But no, I still went for auditions and I didn’t get roles. I still stayed at home for some months without getting jobs. It has been an experience of a lifetime and I am so glad

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Incredible. For one female celeb to frustrate and annoy a fellow female celeb, she must have been MEAN. Strategy or no strategy, she made another lady cry piteously . I think Chioma should ask for forgiveness or Muma Gee's Curse will follow her:

nellaluv:

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MUMA GEE

"Chioma Chukwuka was demonic in camp" - Muma Gee


In the camp she was boasting she's married and I'm not married. Maybe she's the first to marry in life. She flung my things out of the tent (because of a misunderstanding with actor Emeka ike). I looked at her and cried almost ceaselessly. That pained me to the bone and I will never forget. Honestly, I've never suffered that kind of humiliation since I was born, not even when I was poor. Whatever pain I suffered that day will follow that girl.


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I think Chioma should ask for forgiveness or Muma Gee's Curse will follow her:

curses are not real. who gave chioma the power to hand out curses anyway?
who is she? Elisha or Elijah?

[b]B[/b]awomolo u don't get it. Muma G cursed Chioma, not the other way round.
Chioma showed her in camp, but i agree what she did wasn't right. I don't even like Muma G sef, when i said Muma G wouldn't risk being seen without make-up on people were screaming hater,lol.
I don't like her jor

I always kind of liked Muma Gee; I could never remember even one of her songs, bu I admired her unique adventurous fashion sense. ~She's one of the unique Nigerian musician/celeb females, while Chioma is an average actor who never got to the status of the Genevieves, Ini Edos and even Omotola. That's why she went on the show, to up herself. As for me I think she played the game wrong and she's definitely lost a fan(?) in me too.

bawomolo:

curses are not real. who gave chioma the power to hand out curses anyway?
who is she? Elisha or Elijah?

do want to start? What concern Elijah&Elisha in this matter?

Chioma Chukwuka lost a fan (?) in me too .
Bawomolo curses are real o, you better believe.

Chioma really surprised me too, I hate her now, she has lost yet another fan. . .

nellaluv:

Chioma Chukwuka lost a fan (?) in me too .
Bawomolo curses are real o, you better believe.

LOL. I put the (?) next to the "fan" cos I was never crazy about her anyways. She's certainly not on my Top 10 Nollywood actresses - and now that I know she has a bad character to boot, then too bad for her .

Ok. . .Chioma has a bad character and Muma-Gee is a cry baby. Maybe Muma-Gee should switch from music to acting cos she'd get enough crying roles

@maedan, yea, she's not even on my top 10 too.
Chioma is tired of been called the good girl she wants to be a bad girl
i think Muma G is a snob that was why Chioma picked on her
i still don't like Muma G

muma g scares me alot, looks like a witch, but all the same, chioma irritated me all through her stay on that show, she was just too classless.

not even a fan of any of them, hardly a fan of Nigerian actors/ musicians except like 2/3.

As far as I am concerned. . . . . both of them just dey demo!!!!!

Is this supposed to be "Mama-gee" or "Muma-gee?"

^^Yeah Yeah whatever!

I use to have a high opinion of Chioma until GUS. Chioma, you ned to change your attitude! Forget about that strategy crap,you true person came out unconsciously. talk about manners!

I think Muma gee, family and friends started and sponsored this thread! To be objective Muma was a trash and a disgrace to Nigerian women! I do not blame Chioma really cos not every1 can handle a bitchy celeb! I wish Funke aka Jennifer lasted on the show and you would have seen a serious showdown.

What was she aiming at flirting with Emeka of all people?

Chioma could not stand the whole, shit and voiced out.

Muma even insulted Weird MC I was mad but Weird showed her sense of maturity by walking away!

As per the curses heaped on Chioma, it will not stand for no curseless curse will stand! Do you realise that even God honours marriage? Yet Muma and Emeka showed no iota of respect for the institution. I pity Emeka's wife sha

I am glad this Chioma girl was exposed for who she really is. She is a complete b%tch. I said so here a long time ago, she is an arrogant rude woman. I met her a few years ago at the Nigerian expo in London, she was even rude to my mother. I cant stand the woman, although she is a good actress I admit.


Pride has come before her very great fall.

Which great fall can u see ?

Akuviv:

I think Muma gee, family and friends started and sponsored this thread! To be objective Muma was a trash and a disgrace to Nigerian women! I do not blame Chioma really cos not every1 can handle a bitchy celeb! I wish Funke aka Jennifer lasted on the show and you would have seen a serious showdown.

What was she aiming at flirting with Emeka of all people?

Chioma could not stand the whole, poo and voiced out.

Muma even insulted Weird MC I was mad but Weird showed her sense of maturity by walking away!

As per the curses heaped on Chioma, it will not stand for no curseless curse will stand! Do you realise that even God honours marriage? Yet Muma and Emeka showed no iota of respect for the institution. I pity Emeka's wife sha

oh ok

Dr Kitaun:

Which great fall can u see ?

wait for it, its coming, very soon

@op
whatever,chioma still remains my wife

@ AMYUKA93: Correct guy! I cannot understanding these hating. Chioma is a great actress. I'm glad she voiced out, Why tolerate rubbish from Muma Gee?

mama-gee:

They need to kiss and make up already!

Kinky.

una suppose 2 know say this Chioma na confirmed mugu na!forget say she be nollywood actress,na real mugu. as for muma gee hmmmmn there´s smeting about her i just dont like. but let Chioma go and beg her ´cos she´s (muma gee) really hurt.