Fabian Adibe a veteran Nollywood Actor has explained why he left Nollywood and how he completely got blind in 2019 including how his wife was sacked from Nollywood due to tribalism.
Speaking on some acts of wickedness he suffered at the hands of people in the movie industry during an interview 2 years ago has these to say;
Firstly, Speaking about how his wife got sacked from the movie business because of tribalism, Fabian Adibe said:
Acting in the Nollywood of old is much easier than what we have today. Then, we acted together irrespective of our state of origin or tribe. We all met in Enugu and easily got acting jobs. It’s not like that today. My wife was sacked in 1997 because she was a non-indigen in Enugu, despite being an Igbo woman from Abia state, married to an Imo state-born man. Back in our days, this wouldn’t have happened. Nigeria was one then
Second, Speaking about how he was abandoned by people who once profited off of him, Fabian Adibe said:
I have been out of work for 14 years, and then I told one of the Onitsha marketers that Adibe is now blind, and the marketer responded that he is not out to carry around a blind man. So I didn’t leave them because of this blindness, although the blindness started gradually. If I weren’t blind, I would still be doing the film, not for them, but for my first son, who is now an outstanding director in the industry. None of these people that are Onitsha traders that are in Nollywood, none of them have ever phoned me or asked where this man is. Some AGN friends call me even though they find visiting me difficult because they are in Lagos. But the ones that used to use me and that I made money for, none of them have ever called me or looked for me.
Speaking about how he lost his sight, Fabian Adibe said:
I lost my sight completely in 2019 through glaucoma. I was in my house in Enugu one day when something exploded in my eyes. ????
