Emeka Rollas defends Abbo’s appointment as Patron of Actors Guild of Nigeria
The president of the Actor Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Mr Emeka Rollas, has said that the appointment of the senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in Adamawa State at the Nigerian 9th National Assembly Senator Elisha Abbo as an Actors Guild of Nigeria National Patron representing the North East should not be sentimentalized.
Emeka Rollas said that there are processes in the appointment of Actors Guild of Nigeria’s National Patrons and that the committee that presented Abbo must have screened him to as he is representing the North East where he is from;’
He explained that to nominate Actors Guild of Nigeria National Patrons the AGN’s Vice Presidents of each zones and the Chairmen of State Chapters nominate those who have been helpful to them then pass it to the committee who do the screening and after that he do the signing.
Emeka Rollas in his defense of Elisha Abbo’s appointment as Patron of Actors Guild of Nigeria said what is the difference between morality and legality in the face of prima facie
He went on to say that the man in question has not been proven to be a serial woman beater.
And if he has a case which no court has convicted him on that matter why should the AGN be rubbed into it? he asked
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He also said: this same person is a member of nine committees in the Senate and that that AGN did not appoint patron as a measure to celebrate him as a woman beater
He said that Abbo’s patronship came on the heels of his people appointing him
Replaying those who use Social media to attack him he said: Social media is not a medium for the governess of our guild and patronship is not about money but about the things you have done for our people.
Veteran actress Hilda Dokubo said Sen. Elisha Abbo is “not fit to be one of the patrons of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN)”.
Dokubo, who took to her Instagram, @hildadokubo, stated that Abbo was not fit for such a position, recalling how Abbo, representing Adamawa North, was caught on camera physically assaulting a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja.
In her words: “An abuser of women as Patron of Actors Guild of Nigeria is an unpardonable abuse of the rights of all the females in the creative space, especially #actors.
“We must stop every attempt at rubbishing our values as a people with such appointments in whatever guise.
“Consequently, Sen Abbo must be delisted from our list of Patrons now.”
Similarly, Actress Kate Henshaw has added her voice to the protest against the enlistment of the Senator, by calling out the president of the association Emeka Rollas.
In her tweet, the veteran actress stated that the Adamawa lawmaker. who was spotted assaulting a nursing mother in a sex toy shop, is not worthy to be a patron of AGN.
Henshaw added that there are women in the guild and they “don’t want to be slapped”.
Abbo was on the spotlight last year after a video in which he attacked a woman at a sex toy shop went viral.
Inspector-General of Nigeria Police has ordered an investigation into the incident.
The Senate has similar;y set up an investigative panel headed by Sen Sam Egwu to investigate the incident.
