Exclusive! Kunle Afolayan and the enemies in Nollywood

by Anike Jacobs

Kunle Afolayan

Mention a succesful movie producer and director, making waves in the Nigerian movie industry today and you have got Kunle Afolayan.

His block busters such as Irapada, Phone Swap and more recently, October 1 have not only earned him both national and foreign awards but also a prestige.

But you see, success has got enemies.

You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends but Kunle chose the former.

So we are not exactly surprised that he has lotta enemies – within the movie industry.

An actor in the industry, Yomi Fabiyi confirmed this to us. In an exclusive chat with YNaija, Yomi let us into some of the battles that Kunle has to surmount all the time.

Citing a case of the recent peaceful protest that the movie industry embarked upon recently to fight piracy, he said

“To be honest with you, there is no love in our industry at all. You see, many peeps did not show up for the walk becuase they thought it was all about Kunle Afolayan and his October 1st movie, so they stayed back.  They have got this big beef for him all because he is so succesful. Some of them said ‘so because of kunle that is why we will now walk under the sun, oh please no, we are not interest’, that’s why the protest was scanty. They are envious of his success. And that is really childish of them.”

Speaking further, Yomi said “Many of these members are always competiting with themselves and trying to outdo one another instead of joining hands to fight piracy together. That is why we have too many associations under this body (Actors’Guild of Nigeria). We need a well strutured legislative body and not just form presure groups and start calling it AGN. “

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