Veteran Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, has dismissed an announcement attributed to him that insinuated that his colleague, Pete Edochie, was parading himself because the oldest actor in Nollywood.
Udokwu asserted that he was misrepresented in a podcast interview.
Talking throughout an interview with NollyNow, he clarified that he began appearing in Nollywood earlier than Pete Edochie, however didn’t say Edochie was “parading himself and deceiving others” because the oldest actor.
He defined that he was referring to the trendy Nollywood business, distinguishing it from earlier works like “Issues Fall Aside,” through which Edochie starred.
Udokwu, who’s the Particular Adviser on Leisure, Leisure and Tourism to Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, emphasised the significance of respecting elders in African tradition and expressed his admiration for Pete Edochie, acknowledging that Edochie is older than him.
He mentioned, “I granted a podcast interview alongside the traces that I used to be in Nollywood earlier than Pete Edichie, in a solution to a query posed to me by the host of the present. However the assertion: ‘as he’s parading himself and deceiving others’ is actually not from me. I used to be misrepresented.
“That’s a really unsuitable factor for them to do. I by no means mentioned that. All I mentioned was that if you’re referring to Nollywood, I began appearing earlier than Pete Edochie. He might have began appearing earlier than me like in “Issues Fall Aside’, however the TV collection was not a part of Nollywood. Kanayo O. Kanayo had mentioned the identical factor a few years in the past. They now wrote that I mentioned he was parading himself and deceiving others.
“I acted in “Checkmate’ and “When the Solar Units”, however I don’t depend it as a part of Nollywood. Pete Edochie is older than me by far. In our African tradition, we don’t disrespect our elders. I’ll by no means disrespect Pete Edochie.”
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