Tensions are getting high as the election to executive positions of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria, AGN draws near.  The election is billed to take place next month, precisely on March 17. While people thought the election was initially postponed as a result of the court case between top actor Emeka Ike and the guild’s national president, Segun Arinze, close sources have revealed that members of agn board of trustees, BoT are allegedly strategising to ensure that their anointed candidate assumes emerges winner. They allegedly postponed the election to give them ample time to build national attention on their favoured candidate.
And as the scheming continues, the guild’s former national secretary, Emeka Rollas Ejezie has taken his campaign to popular social network, Facebook.  He has in the past four weeks rede-clared his manifesto on Facebook and invited all concerned members of AGN to vote for a new government that will bring a change that everybody has been waiting for.
Emeka Rollas had in a chat with Newsworld Entertainment said the industry has grown so much bigger, but so many of us are still basking in the euphoria of entertainment, nobody is taking us seriously because when you say entertainment industry, you have already brought down the impression you are supposed to create, the business angle of the industry has not been tapped by anybody. No big investor is seeing the industry as a place they can invest, whereas the industry is the second income earner in America, India, Mexico and all other countries. But here, I challenge my colleagues, 70 percent of them did not buy good cars from the proceeds of the proceeds in the industry. It is either they went for a contract somewhere.”
The mass communication graduate from the Federal Polytechnic, Oko went further to say that, “there is no actor that has gone to a car shop and bought a five or three million naira car and say it is from acting fee. But if you go to other countries doing this business, an actor can afford a private jet. That is to tell you that there is something wrong somewhere. We have so much, we are greatly endowed that as opinion leaders, we can change so much in the society, but what is happening now is that the society is gradually trying to buy us over. The politicians are quickly appointing members as special adviser this and that, and they now begin to think along like politicians, following their lines of thought. So in the next ten years, the actors who are supposed to be educating the society are now caged within the periphery of the politicians, so an actor now becomes a politician. This portends so much danger because you that is supposed to help the society is now helping to kill the society.”
Already, all Oko Polytechnic graduates in the entertainment industry are not only pledging their allegiances but are also engaged in the campaign by sharing his manifesto with thousands of friends on Facebook and other social network sites.

 
By George Emine

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