The recent TVC interview of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, where he described the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a ‘Nollywood actor’ has elicited a reaction from the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN).
El-Rufai, while claiming the former Anambra State governor would not win in the forthcoming polls due to its party’s lack of national spread, had said: “Peter Obi is a Nollywood actor, and that is all he will speak about. This election is between the APC and the PDP because they have the footprints and the ‘spate’. Ethnicity and religious bigotry will not take you anywhere, and that is what the Labour Party campaign is about.”
The AGN president, Emeka Rollas, who reacted to the characterization in a statement issued by its Communications Director, Kate Henshaw, described El-Rufai’s statement as belittling and aimed at demeaning the intellectual capacity of an actor.
