Actor Ibinabo Takes A Swipe At Colleague Emeka Ike..

Embattled president of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima-Egbuka, is a reporter’s delight any day. The charming actor, AGN’S first female president till date, has also featured in a lot of movies and she’s a proud mother.

In this interview with New Telegraph, she addressed issues bothering on the guild, her love life and family...

As an ex-beauty queen, you still look dapper and remain trim; do you have some beauty secret?

-First of all, it’s been God and my husband anyway. You people want me to leave the market (chuckles). I am still very much relevant and I love to look good so that I can still be called babe as the case maybe. But in all, it’s been God’s grace- no secret per se.

Your marriage just clocked one year a while back, how is the experience being married again?

-Being married is sweet and good most especially when you are married to the one you love, who understands you and wants the best for you at all time. As you can see I am glowing and will continue to glow.

So what kind of wife are you?

-I’m a good one who thinks of her family at all time and wants the best for her man and kids. I am that kind of wife that I don’t indulge in what my husband is not supportive of. Whatever you see me wear outside my house is what I have rocked in grand style in the presence of my husband. When you see me on bum shorts, I rock them well, whether long or short at home.

Let’s talk about the guild, there have been rancor from some parties, can you shed more light on it?

-There is no rancor in the guild. You see people get confused with tell tales, people just like lies. Did you ever go for an election where Emeka Ike took part in? So how is he the president of AGN? That’s the only question I have for the press because you are giving him audience to talk. Did he run for any position in Actors Guild of Nigeria? No he didn’t!

With all the argument, don’t you think settling things amicably is the best thing to do between the two of you?

-We have tried! But it all fell on deaf ears.

So what went wrong?

-Emeka Ike is not about running a guild; it’s about how much he can make from poor people that want to join the guild. You see that N5,000 or N20,000 they make? That’s salary and food for him. I’m so sorry but that’s just how low he is.

But he was your friend?

-He is not! You see, he was once my friend but he is not any more. You don’t have a friend and do what he is doing. It doesn’t work. You must learn to grow, I have grown. They must learn to grow too. There was chaos in AGN before I came in, but since I took over, there has been peace. Members have started gaining things and they have come again with chaos. When will it stop? Let’s think of our members for once and stop thinking of ourselves.

So you think you are still the president of AGN?

I don’t think, I know.

As the president of AGN, how do you get time to also take part in movies?

It’s the grace of God. Like one fine girl just told me how she loves my energy and that I inspire her. And that’s the kind of thing I love to hear and it inspires me too to keep doing what I do and somehow God has been a blessing to my life.