Bob-Manuel Udokwu Denies Insulting Pete Edochie, Says He Was Misquoted

Used Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, has disregarded a assertion attributed to him that insinuated that his colleague, Pete Edochie, was parading himself as the oldest actor in Nollywood.

Udokwu asserted that he was misrepresented in a podcast interview.

Speaking within the midst of an interview with NollyNow, he clarified that he started performing in Nollywood before Pete Edochie, however did no longer issue Edochie was “parading himself and deceiving others” as the oldest actor.

He defined that he was relating to the smartly-liked Nollywood alternate, distinguishing it from earlier works fancy “Things Descend Apart,” in which Edochie starred.

Udokwu, who is the Special Adviser on Entertainment, Leisure and Tourism to Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra Dispute, emphasised the importance of respecting elders in African custom and expressed his admiration for Pete Edochie, acknowledging that Edochie is older than him.

He acknowledged, “I granted a podcast interview alongside the traces that I was in Nollywood before Pete Edichie, in an acknowledge to a predict posed to me by the host of the reveal. But the assertion: ‘as he is parading himself and deceiving others’ is without problems no longer from me. I was misrepresented.

“That’s a extremely rotten thing for them to discontinue. I never acknowledged that. All I acknowledged was that ought to you are relating to Nollywood, I started performing before Pete Edochie. He can have started performing before me fancy in “Things Descend Apart’, however the TV collection was no longer part of Nollywood. Kanayo O. Kanayo had acknowledged the same thing a few years ago. They now wrote that I acknowledged he was parading himself and deceiving others.

“I acted in “Checkmate’ and “When the Solar Objects”, however I don’t count it as part of Nollywood. Pete Edochie is older than me by a ways. In our African custom, we don’t disrespect our elders. I will never disrespect Pete Edochie.”

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