Nollywood top actress, Iyabo Ojo, recently caused a lot of buzz after calling out her colleague, Funke Akindele, and accused her of discrediting the works of others. According to Iyabo Ojo, Akindele paid a movie critic blog, Cinema Pointer, to tarnish Toyin Abraham’s new movie while elevating hers.
Cinema Pointer had given a caustic review of Abraham’s Ghost and the Tout Too movie, claiming that it wasn’t a film meant to be seen by intelligent people.
They wrote:
“Not recommended for intelligent people. Over the years, we have told you many truths but non Greater than this: Intelligent minds were not taken into consideration at all in the writing and in the making of ‘Ghost and The Tout Too’. Thusly, intelligent minds will not enjoy it at all.” Not stopping there, the page compared Abraham’s movie to Funke Akindele’s Omo Ghetto: The Saga. It was said that Ghost and the Tout copied her colleague’s movie while hoping to shine like it.
In their words:
“Regardless of how flagrantly it copycats off ‘Ómó Ghetto: The Saga’ desperately hoping to shine like it. Unlike that one ‘The Ghost and The Tout Too’ doesn’t understand that movie-making is rooted in brain-work and not in using cinema to do “Yahoo”, abusing stardoms to fleece fandoms.”
The page described Ghost and the Tout Too as a brain dead story and that hoping to find sense in it was a futile exercise. On a final note, Cinema Pointer then said people were better off watching Akindele’s Omo Ghetto and even added the date it was going to be released on a popular movie streaming platform.
The very harsh review of Abraham’s movie led to her colleague, Iyabo Ojo, taking to the page’s comment section to share a piece of her mind. According to Iyabo, Funke must have paid the page to badmouth Abraham’s work. Not stopping there, she added that the day Akindele stops trying to discredit the works of her colleagues is the day she will experience inner peace. Iyabo continued by saying she knows Akindele’s character in real life and that people on social media think she is a good person.