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Chairman AGN Rivers State Congratulates Newly Elected Edo State Chairman



.....lambasts Former President Emeka Rollas for lack of support 


Crisis is brewing in the rank of the Actors Guild of Nigeria following the recent election of the Edo State executives.

There is a quiet truth in Nigerian politic and in Nollywood: when the stakes are highest, all roads run through Edo. The soil of the old Benin Kingdom has become a crucible where loyalty is tested, where kingmakers rise, and where betrayals cut deepest. Nowhere is this symbiosis more evident than in the unfolding story of the Actors Guild of Nigeria. 


This followed the election of Joel Opute as the chairman despite not having the backing of former president Dr Emeka Rollas.

Chairman of AGN Rivers State Dr Ken Osunwa, in a statement issued weekend, berated Dr Rollas for not supporting Opute despite working for his election and Edo State always supporting the AGN national executives during elections.


He said:

"Edo is the delivery centre for every important presidential election of Actors Guild of Nigeria, e.g Chief Dr. Emeka Rollas, MON  and Chief Alhaji Abubakar Yakubu and now the host state chairman himself Joel Opute's reelection bid. The powers that be said he can't become state AGN Chairman in first attempt after servicing as a state secretary, it became difficult for the then chairman to endorse him and now after helping AGN and former president, Chief Emeka Rollas to secure his ambition to the fullest, he refused to endorse Mr. Joel's reelection, after several attempts by Mr. Opute to get Emeka's attention proved impossible, against all odds, this young emerging leader and serious stakeholder in entertainment industry and AGN survived the plots to stop him to be reelected."


This is the paradox of power. Edo delivers. Edo sacrifices. Edo builds the bridge and watches others cross it first. Mr. Joel Opute served as state secretary with diligence. When the rules of the game said “not yet” for his chairmanship bid, he did not burn the house. He stayed. He built. He became the instrument through which the AGN national presidency of Chief Emeka Rollas was secured to the fullest. Loyalty, in its rawest form, is service without guarantee. 




Yet loyalty, when met with silence, becomes a lesson for us all.  


"Today, no congratulatory message from the ex-president of Actors Guild of Nigeria he served very well, though I'm yet to know the reasons Joel Opute has to go through this troublesome betrayal. I'm worried because what goes around comes around. AGN is our collective initiative that we should not allow individuals destroy it without us knowing it."


What we are witnessing is not just an election. It is a mirror. It reflects how institutions treat the men who hold them up when the roof is shaking. It asks us: Is the Guild greater than the gratitude of one man? Does service end when ambition is fulfilled? 


History remembers Edo not for who it crowned, but for who it refused to let fall. From the Emeka Rollas presidential victory to the Alhaji Abu Yakubu era, Edo has been the delivery centre. The Edo state, Mr. Joel and some of us did not ask for monuments. We asked for respect. 


And so, against plots, against silence, against the cold shoulder of endorsement withheld, Joel Opute stands reelected. A young, emerging leader who understands that the entertainment industry is not built on handshakes but on hard ground. A stakeholder who knows AGN is not a personal estate but a collective initiative. 


To survive betrayal is to prove leadership. To win without the blessing of the powers that be is to prove legitimacy comes from the people you serve, not the men you served. 


Congratulations to Mr. Opute my dearest friend.


May this chapter remind AGN that symbiosis means mutual survival. When Edo and anyone deliver for the centre, the centre must not forget them when it matters most. Because what goes around, indeed, comes around. And the Guild we protect today is the shelter we will need tomorrow.  


Let no individual, no matter how high, destroy what we all built in the dark.  


_Edo has spoken. Again._ this time for itself and I'm a witness.



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