Nollywood veteran, Chief Chiwetalu Agu, has urged all protagonists at loggerheads in the Actors Guild of Nigeria, (AGN) to kill their over ambition for the organization to move forward, adding that no society can progress where there is violence.
The veteran actor lamented the impasse in the association between the parties that have refused to accept defeat and move on. In an interview in Enugu over the week, the actor said that greed has a way of ruining one’s career.
“I want stakeholders to begin to do away with over ambition. That this post is good for me to occupy is okay, but when you struggle for it for too long and you see that it doesn’t work, you can leave it. If you ask me, I am the most qualified to run the affairs of Nollywood. I started my career in 1981 in Enugu so I had been in the scene acting 12 years before the advent of Nollywood, of which I am a pioneer.”
“”There is no way you can talk of the history of Nollywood without me occupying a substantial part of it. I had my theatre group known as the ‘Inspirers’ in those days. I acted in many NTA programmes, like the ‘Ikoro’, produced by Joe Onyekwere; ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1986, after which I put together a soap ‘The Advocate’ which never saw the light of the day. In 1987 I went to Lagos, where I featured in ‘The Ripples’ produced by Zeb Ejiro. I played the character of Chief Abunna, the Okemilinaezoluora 1 of Etiti and the Odezulumba of Ogbunike town.”
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