AGN responds to actor's abandonment claim
The Secretary-General of AGN under Ibinabo Fiberesima has responded to Ernest Asuzu's claim that Nollywood abandoned him to face his illness alone.
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Speaking to Pulse Nigeria, Abubakar Yakubu - AGN National Secretary under Ibinabo Fiberesima -agreed that the body is indeed obligated to check up on sick actors.
According to him, the Ibinabo Administration was popular for reaching out to sick actors within and outside Lagos State, and had tried their best to help Asuzu.
"Thank God that he [Asuzu] is out of it. Everyone knows that the Ibinabo administration was very passionate about member's welfare in terms of reaching out to members who were ill," Yakubu said.
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Apologizing for the outcome of Ernest Asuzu's case, he said: "We don't join issues, what has happened has happened. We tried our best, but If he feels that he was abandoned, we are sorry about that.
You know, we are all humans and the illness lingered for long."
Yakubu added that there is currently no bad blood between Ernest Asuzu and the AGN body. "He still comes to the AGN office. He has forgotten all about that," he said.
In an interview published on September 28, 2017, Asuzuwho was recently ill with stroke, accused Nollywood and AGN of abandoning him.
"All the Nollywood actors ignored me, including Ibinabo who was the AGN president at that time. She never came to check on me, all the actors never came even till now," he said to Linda Ikeji Blog.
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In 2016, the recovering actor was gifted with a brand new jeep worth N3.5m, and a sum of N1.5m to enable him start up a new life.
Ernest Asuzu is popular for movies such as "Accidental Discharge," "Royal Wedding," "Chain Reaction" and "Dirty Game.".
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