Peter Obi: Stop comparing actors with unintelligent people, AGN tells El-Rufai

'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…'

In a strongly-worded statement signed by the body’s Director of Communications, Kate Henshaw, the Guild describes El-Rufai’s account as not only derogatory to the acting profession but degrading to the Actors in Nollywood.online polls which place Mr Obi ahead of other presidential candidates.

Reacting, the AGN president, Emeka Rollas, said that the statement is intended to belittle and demean the intellectual capacity of an actor.Mr Rollas said that using actors to make sarcastic examples of an unintelligent person is arrogant and condescending of a public office holder. Mr Rollas noted that the Guild is utterly bewildered by this statement from a sitting governor who claims to be educated and intelligent, referring to a noble profession of intelligentsia endowed with uncommon talent.

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