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Ibinabo Confesses: My Marriage Won’t Crash

Ibinabo-FiberesimaFrom having a public spat with fellow actress Clarion Chukwurah to rallying support for President Goodluck Jonathan, president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria Ibinabo Fiberesima never fails to excite. She recently opens up on the thrill of being elected for another term to head AGN and why her marriage this December will not end like some celebrity unions.

Ibinabo Fiberesima was on October 16 re-elected as the president of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) for a second tenure. For the Okrika, Rivers State born actress, it is double celebration, as she will in December say “I do” to an old flame.

While both undergraduates at the University of Ibadan, they were mere friends, she told Top Celebrities Magazine.

She had, while campaigning for reelection, urged members to vote her as she intended to consolidate on gains made in her fist term and also improve the welfare of actors in Nigeria.

And moment after her victory, she had this to say, “I won my re-election as president of Actors Guild of Nigeria. Thank you for your prayers and love. I am forever indebted to my Facebook family. To all chapters of Actors Guild in Nigeria, God bless you all for your total confidence in me. I had a landslide victory. I am overwhelmed.

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“What I have done in my first tenure was to transform the guild. So, what I intend to do in my second tenure is to grow the guild.”

Indeed, during her first tenure, she came up with some welfare packages for AGN members, a situation which she said “is getting bigger and better.” According to her, “We have more members coming in, especially to be part of the health plan.

Some members that didn’t think it was not necessary were the ones who were falling sick lately, as they run to me for help. We are still doing everything possible to support them. But I urge more members of the guild to re-validate their membership so as to benefit from the health plan.”

On the awards project she has put on hold, she explained: “Given that it was my first tenure, I had a lot of dreams at the beginning.

But getting into the system, and understanding what is on ground, I thought it’s necessary to put the project on hold. There are a lot of award bodies out there. But the kind of award I want to organise is totally different from what is obtainable today. My priority is to put the guild on the right track again after which other things will fall in place.”

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On her second tenure, she is coming back to continue where she stopped, especially with projects conceived to touch the lives of members across the states, she said. “The interstate cultural competition is one project that I must take off the drawing board. We are going to organise it immediately after our re-election into office again.

It’s about ethnic harmony, telling Nigerians that we are one and that we shall remain one and indivisible entity. We are going to organise that competition.

“It’s dance, drama, poetry and painting. It’s a talent hunt as well. At the same time, we are promoting our cultural heritage. It’s something that has been on my mind. All the state chapters are ready for the competition.

But following different events that came up during my first tenure, we were not able to actualise that dream. It’s my desire to make the dream come true in my second tenure. Also, in my second tenure, I intend to pay more attention to the state chapters because some of them don’t have offices. They hold their meetings under trees. I intend to approach state governments with a view of securing parcels of lands to build identical AGN offices nationwide.”

Her eyes lit up when the subject changed to her coming wedding. “There is joy around me all the time. He is someone I totally adore. I can’t wait to tie the knot in December. I feel blessed getting married. I feel I have found a partner that is my best friend, my brother; someone I can relate with, someone that understands me and the kind of work I do for a living, someone that appreciates me.

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Yes, the questions are coming, I will not divorce. I love my husband and I know I will continue to love him because he is my friend. He was my best friend back in the university; though we weren’t dating then. He proposed to me when we met again after a couple of years. We became friends again. He proposed to me and I jumped at it.”

Given how overjoyed she is at the prospect of getting married, you wonder if being single had been a worrying point. It might be for other women; certainly not for Ibinabo. “Not at all. I didn’t think I missed anything in life. I was content with myself and now, I am blessed.”