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Emeka Rollas defends decision to honour Elisha Abbo as AGN patron

by Davies Ngere Ify
March 17, 2020
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Earlier today, Within Nigeria reported news of Senator Elisha Abbo becoming the Patron of Actors’ Gild of Nigeria (AGN) and how some popular Nollywood key players reacted towards the news.

After the news broke, Veteran actress Hilda Dokubo kicked against it, recalling how the lawmaker was spotted in a video assaulting a nursing mother in a sex toy shop, the veteran actress stated that making an “abuser of women a Patron of Actors Guild of Nigeria is an unpardonable abuse”.

Another popular actress, took to micro blogging platform, Twitter to bare her thought – Nollywood Actress, Kate Henshaw called out the President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) Emeka Rollas for appointing Senator Elisha Abbo as patron of the association.

In his defense, Emeka Rollas, stated that since the Senator has come out to apologies for slapping a staff at a sex store, there is no need to bring up the issue again.

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He also added that some of the celebs who are coming out to bash the decision, are not even actual members of the guild.

Watch him speak below;

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