I’m A Future Abia State Governor – Doris Ogala

Nollywood actress Doris Ogala has declared her intention to become Abia State governor soon. She recently had her say during a podcast interview that aired on Instagram, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Describing her political ambition as a divine mandate, the moviestar insisted that she is better than every other contender in the race.

Doris added that the so-called improvements in Abia roads and electricity are nothing but a PR spin by the current government.

Her words, “I am so sure, and I know it, because I’m better than all of them.

My call to come and save my people is a divine mandate. I will be the next governor of Abia State. Nothing is going to stop it.

I have been in Abia for 3 good months. No lights. I sleep in my family house. I don’t have light. I can tell you that this present government has done nothing. And I will tell you because I know.

They’ve sold this thing to the public for the longest time.

I dare the governor Alex Otti to challenge me. He didn’t build Ariaria.”

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.