AGN Tussle: State heads call for Ibinabo Fiberesima's immediate removal

By Olamide Jasanya

These days are certainly not good ones for the President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima, who has been repeatedly called out by actress Clarion Chukwura over her alleged incompetence as the president of the guild.

Joining the anti-Fiberisima campaign is the guild’s conference of State Chairmen.

In a release made available exclusively to NET, the secretary of the conference, Dayo Onibiyo, expressed the conference’s position on Ibinabo’s presidency and called for her immediate removal on the grounds that the constitution forbids an ex-convict to be President or hold any position in the guild.

Read the release:

TIME TO SEND IBINABO BACK TO PRISON, PUT ELECTION ON HOLD

…AGN Conference of Chairmen Secretary

Toelrating and concealing convict Ms Ibinabor Fiberisima and her cohorts as they parade themselves as custodians of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, make us culpable of housing criminals and helping them to pervert justice, says the secretary of conference of AGN chairmen in Nigeria, Comrade Dayo Onibiyo, who is also the chairman of Kwara State Chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN).

It is unfortunate that every attempt to get this industry on the right track has been thwarted by criminals who don’t have regard for the laws of the land. How can artists who should be communication and education agents be the breakers of the law? Convict Ms Ibinabor Fiberisma ran away from her criminal conviction and with the same brazen disregard led the AGN BOT and her so-called executives to go against two court orders.

The secretariat of the Conference of Chairmen submit that convict Ms Ibinabor Fiberisma is supposed to have served in prison for five (5) years for killing a medical doctor in person of late Dr Suraj Giwa whom she murdered wastefully through reckless driving when suspectedly returning from a nite club, drunk, a woman who is supposed to be a mother of three or four and remain a fugitive from justice. So what message is the Nigerian artist’ community sending to the world?

AGN cannot and will not be led by a convict, especially not an unrepentatnt one at that. The bible said it all, when the righteous rules…now when a manslaughterer rules, what happens? We are saying it loud and clear that convict, Ms Ibinabor Fiberisima’s image is a bad one for AGN and negates the integrity of this reputable guild of professionals, a gross misrepresentation of peole like Olu Jacobs, Larry Williams, Sadiq Daba, Joke Silva, Pete Edochie, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Richard Mofe Damijo to mention but a few, and they are all watching these evils being perpetrated.

We at our level at the conference of Chairmen of AGN are winning the war already , the evil cannot last forever, this canker worm cannot continue to eat AGN, those in authority are listening and our fast and prayers are working already because their camps are crumbling daily.

We will soon have men and women of integrity in position so that AGN can smile again. We are also calling on our veterans and past Presidents to rise to the occasion of rebuilding AGN.

It is in view of the judgment by Hon. Justice J T Tosho of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday 26^th of October, 2011 which Ibinabor Fiberisima and her cohorts disregarded with impunity, that we as law abiding citizens, responsible artists, educated people and future protecting Nigerians who are State Chapter Chairmen in the Conference of Chairmen of AGN are reviewing the proposed June 2014 National elections of AGN slated for Abuja and for which an electoral panel has been instituted, decided put the election on hold to deliberate further on the way forward, but in the meantime, we reiterate that convict Ms Ibinabor Fibersima is not AGN President, she is simply an impostor.

We are also investigating unconfirmed claims that Fiberisima Ibinabor is using militants to threaten people, calling the name of Tom Ateke as her cousin or tribes man and we wonder what militants have got to do with AGN? We wish to make it clear that the AGN headquarters is in Lagos and not in the creeks, and as such we may be forced to report the matter to OPC, APC, Egbesu and Nwazurike if the allegation is true and if Government fails to protect our people everywhere, particularly in Lagos. We will not be threatened by sectionalization or ethnicilization of the subject of unconstitutional compromises in our guild from any quarters, no matter how high.

For the Board of Trustees, we have long said it, that they have overstayed and their tenure expired. This, we consider as the major reason why they are supporting all these ungodly acts of illegality and are hell bent on suppressing the constitution. Whoever is feeding fat on AGN will soon purge all they have illegally acquired and by God Almighty’s grace, they will go lean soon as the ordinary Nigerian screen actors assume their rightful position. The time has come for the right reasoning to prevail. [sic]