Elvis Chuks, CEO of Diamond Groove Pictures has spoken exclusively to NET on what went down in Port Harcourt during the 7th edition of the BON Awards. Photo: Encomium It is believed in several quarters that award winning Nollywood actor, director and producer, Elvis Chuks, is responsible for the drama that has kicked off following the completion of the 2014 edition of the Best Of Nollywood awards in which Gov. Rotimi Amaechi is said to have insulted Nollywood and its practitioners present at the awards ceremony which held at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, October 16, 2014. Elvis Chuks, the CEO of Diamond Groove Pictures has just spoken exclusively to NET, giving a full narration of events that went down in Port Harcourt during the 7th edition of the BON Awards and the resultant controversy. According to him, ‘They bought economy tickets for all the celebrities expecting us to sit with people who are our fans in economy class, how else can you belittle an actors. Desmond Elliot, Sola Sobowale and others all flew economy class, only I and Iyabo Ojo bought our first class tickets. We got to Port Harcourt, and they brought a luxury bus to carry celebrities, I left them and hired a private car that took me to the hotel. When we got to the hotel they wanted us to stay, the hotel is nothing to write home about. I moved out of that hotel and checked into a better hotel. It got to the time they wanted to leave for the venue and they started calling me, so I came from the hotel where I was and joined them at the same hotel where they lodged actors and they brought yet again a luxury bus to carry us again.’ When asked if he was the celebrity who complained while all this was going on, he said, ‘other people were complaining, but you know how people are, they don’t want to say it the way it is.’ In continuation, Chuks, who has produced a number of movies in the industry himself, aded: ‘When we got to the Government House, they asked us to alight at the gate and walk to the venue, everybody there walked to the venue, when we got to the hall, not a drop of water was on the table for everyone including Mama G, Liz Benson, Kenneth Okonkwo, Bob Manuel and others. The stage was another problem, it was so bad that people fell from it several times, it was designed with plywood, Desmond Elliot too almost fell on the stage. As if that was not enough, the governor the stood up and his first statement was: ‘Nollywood is a product of Necessity.’ Dickson Iroegbu who works with the presidency sat beside me and he shouted ‘Jesus,’ we were all shocked and then he started explaining the statement and still said when Joke Silva and Kate Henshaw come to see him in Port Harcourt, they go with cartoons of money. Those statements are uncalled for. And I stood up and walked out; because that is the height of insult anybody would want to take. Both Seun Oloketuyi and his Amaechi are not good people, and all this wishy-washy award ceremonies have to stop, the likes of BON Awards and ZAFAA awards that duped people should be stopped. They are bunch of liars, Oloketuyi and Amaechi are losers. I told Oloketuyi himself that 100 of his governor friends cannot feed me, I’ve done well for myself, I attended the award because of my nomination, I cannot be treated like a nobody, how can they carry celebrities with luxurious buses. I’m sure you heard what happened last year to people that went to the BON dinner in the same Port Harcourt, most of them were stranded at the airport.’...
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