The war between iconic actors Segun
Arinze and Emeka Ike seems to have no end in sight. In a recent
interview, Arinze said Ike should stop embarrassing the Actors Guild of
Nigeria by parading himself as its president.
Arinze said, “He should grow up. As far
as I am concerned, Ibinabo Fiberesima is the bonafide president. Even in
the recent judgement that came out recently telling us to return to the
status quo, what does it mean? We were told to go back to the way we
were. There was no time Emeka Ike was pronounced the president of AGN.
Let him bring out the copy of the judgement and show us if he is man
enough. He should wake up and stop embarrassing the guild.”
These words did not go down well with Ike who believes Segun Arinze “is an illiterate who should have been in jail.”
“I heard Segun Arinze was........
interviewed
and he said so many things about me and nobody asked me for my own side.
I don’t think it was a balanced report. Segun Arinze did not say
anything meaningful, he was just cursing himself. That is not how to
handle legal matters. In legal matters, we take things from the law’s
point of view. Segun that is talking to the journalist is supposed to be
behind bars because he committed a crime that should have sent him to
jail. There was an order that he violated by bringing in Ibinabo as the
president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria. I have been saying this since.
That is why Ibinabo’s tenure was called ‘contentious.’
“Why should we the educated people allow
market people to talk? I am a very cerebral person and I don’t deal
with men who cannot read and do not understand the legalities of the
paper they have in their hand. I cannot be trading words with a common
street boy because if you did not go to school, you cannot understand
some legal issues. So, he cannot assess the judgement of the court of
law.”
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