Jibola Dabo Regrets Gay Role In Nigerian Soft-Porn Movie, Says Muna Obiekwe Was A Chain Smoker

Jibola Dabo Regrets Gay Role In Nigerian
Soft-Porn Movie, Says Muna Obiekwe Was A Chain Smoker

Veteran Nollywood actor Jibola Dabo has spoken up for the first since the death of talented actor Muna Obiekwe. In a recent chat with PunchNg, the actor expressed his displeasure with the gay role he played with the deceased in a movie titled Dirty Secret.
See excerpts: Which movie would you say has been your most challenging? I hate to advertise for any movie and I believe every movie I have been a part of has been challenging in several ways. However, the movie that I had to put extra effort is also the
movie I hate the most, ‘Dirty Secrets.’ I played a role that is totally different from who I am in reality. I hate the character I played and for me to do it well, I had to become the character. I had to hate myself while doing so. It was bad.
After the movie, I had to keep telling myself that the character I portrayed was not who I am. Have you watched the movie? I don’t want to see it. I have been asked if I could play such a role again and I told them ‘yes’ but only if I have access to the post-production stage. There are some things that should have been edited in the movie that were not removed. There are some things an actor would do to make his acting real that should be edited but they released the movie like that. It was so raw and it was terrible for them to put everything out there. You acted alongside the late Muna Obiekwe in the movie you’re talking about… I felt sad about it. But the young man had been sad for a while because he had been careless about his health. He drank too much alcohol and he didn’t remember that he had a
liver. He was also a chain smoker, but of course, there are also people that do it and live longer. I was saddened that we had lost another star because he was a great actor.

Charles Novia Defends Recently Deceased Nollywood Actor Muna Obiekwe’s Secret Habit

I never really met him nor knew him personally but I admired his acting skills onscreen whenever I watched the movies he
featured in. He was an actor who had a panache beyond comparison in many of his roles. I always thought he was
damned good. That he is dead is a sad reality. That he died at all when he lived and still lives in our hearts and on our screens is the
painful jolt to our systems. Because in Nollywood, actors (and good ones too, in Muna’s mould) never really die. They only
transcend to another place where, perhaps, the ovation they receive over there gives lasting peace to their souls. What can one really say about Muna? I never knew much
about him and perhaps many people did not as well. He seemed to live a life less glimpsed in personal details than that more appreciated on the television screens. He seemed
to me to be a recluse. And I might be wrong here but when one reads his body
language with the benefit of hindsight, one could begin to piece together a deliberate insulation by the gifted actor from
the public eye. And there is nothing wrong with that. Many talented creatives all over the world are like that. But Muna’s
case stands out because it seemed like our nosey and sensational entertainment press just could not get anything on
him. There were few stories or scandals about him and more reviews about his body of work which is quite the hallmark of
an artiste who exploits a mystique around him. He kept his life private and perhaps, that privacy was as much a tragic flaw as it was a commendable decision, depending on how one views it. He shunned selfies and self-
serving instagram posts about material acquisitions. He could well have lied, as most of his colleagues do about his material wealth, just to ‘belong’. But he kept it real. He did. I
respect that. I have read some reports on his death online and while the veracity of such is yet to be final on my part, there were tales
of his battle with Kidney Disease for a few years and his weekly Dialysis treatments which he hid from the public all
these years and known only to his close family. It was reported that he shunned all entreaties by those in the know
to raise funds for him through a public appeal and preferred to plan a stage show which would have helped him out of the
medical financial demands. If that was indeed true, it was quite unfortunate. Because I believe there would be few souls
who would not have donated to a Save Muna fund, if only to help in giving the actor a second lease of life. Other reports say that he was a heavy drinker of hard liquor
and smoked a lot and there were assertions that these must have caused his health issues. There’s nothing much to say
about that. Artistes generally imbibe in habits which act as a counterbalance to the demands of their jobs. How a man smokes and drinks should not be anyone’s worries. It is the
self-moderation switch in the artiste which should be scrutinized when such happens rather than what he does in
his leisure. There was no doubt that Muna was a great actor. But he came across, to me, as one who had more of a brooding
disposition all the time off camera than one with a happy mien. He was more of a mystery as a soft-spoken actor with a scowl and while that attribute in a better clime would have
added to his personal brand power, over here it (that mystery about him) alienated him somehow from the fawning fans.
Muna was a damn good actor, really! And I do not think his death is a closing of the final curtains of his act.

Picture Of How Muna Obiekwe Died in the Hospital (LOOK)

These are the last set of photos before the death of Nollywood actor, Muna Obiekwe when he was rushed to the hospital today before he gave up the ghost. See another photo
of him on a dialysis machine during one of his treatments after the cut....