Ibinabo’s AGN Faction Rejects Caretaker

Ibinabo Fiberesima’s fac
tion  of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) kicks against the newly set up caretaker Committee of AGN. They  are insisting that the State Chapters of AGN are not aware of the selection of the Caretaker Committee  members. Fiberesima’s faction stated that Ibinabo is still the president of the association.
It was gathered that  the governing body of Nigerian actors, AGN is being faced with a fresh crisis after the short  peace it had enjoyed in a short while.  A statement signed by the secretary of the  Ibinabo  camp of AGN, Abubakar Yakub,  reads:
“The National Executive Committee of AGN received the news of a group purported to have set up a Caretaker Committee to take over the Guild as a shock because no group/stakeholders approached the National Executive Committee on the said meeting.
Also, our State Executive  Committees were not  aware of the purported meeting. Much as we would not like to respond to the resolution of the  said  stakeholders meeting which looks like a child’s play to us, however we need to set the records straight for avoidance of doubt by our teeming members and the general public.
The fact is that Ibinabo Fiberesima remains the only elected president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN). The matter between St Maradona Mclive Johnson and AGN which judgment was pronounced  by the Justice T.S. Tshoho of the Federal High Court Lagos on March 16, 2015 is a subject of appeal at the Federal Court of appeal Lagos, No:Ca/l/498/16″.
“Until final judgment is given by the Supreme Court, if it takes us there, it will ever remain like that. Examples abound of how  State Governors were sacked by tribunals and even appeal courts but were never removed from office until Supreme Court gives it’s final judgment.
Our states’ executive committees were not aware of the meeting including over 85 per cent  of State chairmen across the country. So the chairmen that attended the said meeting did so in their individual  capacity and not on behalf of their state AGN chapters.
The National President is not also moved by all these distractions as she remains focused and committed to the welfare and wellbeing of our members.
She cannot be cowed out of office. We have respect for the rule of law and shall abide by the result of  legal and constitutional process in order to entrench a lasting peace in our noble Guild.