- In the aftermath of Junior Pope’s untimely demise, actor Frank Tana has stirred the pot with jaw-dropping disclosures regarding his colleague’s tragic end.
- Tana averred that Junior Pope didn’t just meet his end recently; he argues that his fate was sealed long ago, painted a picture of a dark and twisted narrative lurking in the shadows.
Frank Tana, a prominent figure in Nollywood, has spilled the beans on the uphill battle his fellow actor, Obumneme Odonwodo, fondly called Junior Pope, endured in the Nigerian film scene before his passing.
Recent reports from WITHIN NIGERIA have detailed the tragic demise of Junior Pope and four others, who met their watery grave when their boat went belly up in the River Niger while journeying back from a film shoot earlier this week.
In a fiery Instagram video, Tana boldly asserted that Junior Pope’s tragic end was not mere happenstance.
He insinuated that the actor had been “killed” by Nollywood producers, whom he likened to a formidable ‘cartel’, long before his demise.
Tana dropped the bombshell that Junior Pope was blacklisted and thrown under the bus by heavyweight producers in the biz, which left him high and dry in securing steady roles in movies.
Because of this, Tana claimed the actor had to grind for gigs beyond Nollywood’s epicenter in Asaba, hitting the road to Enugu, Owerri, and Lagos to hustle and keep his belly full.
According to him, Junior Pope only managed to snag a decent car to navigate through his tough career path thanks to the generosity of big shot, E-money.
His words;
“Junior Pope died many years ago. Junior Pope was killed by our producers. Yes, the major producers killed Junior Pope. The cartel killed Junior Pope. I am saying this because nobody is feeding me and nobody can feed me. I’m already made and I’m made for life. I am bigger than all of them. Bigger, far bigger than all of them. People who know me will testify to that. Our producers k!Iled Junior Pope. How did they kill him?
“Let me tell you. When I came to Nollywood (and) I saw Junior Pope, the way people outside see him is not the way he is in Nollywood.
“Junior Pope was struggling to survive. Yes, our producers, they blacklisted him and so many others. Junior Pope doesn’t see work in Asaba. He hustles outside Enugu, Owerri, Lagos to work, to put food on his table. Most people, if not for E-money, Emoney bought him his car. Junior Poop was driving one jalopy car like that when I came to Asaba. Emoney bought him a car, a good car, the one that he had been using for the past four years if I’m not mistaken.
“Junior Pope is a hustler. Everybody shouting, Adanma Luke, Adanma Luke, Adanma Luke killed Junior Pope. How? Were you people giving him jobs?
“Nobody gave him a job. That’s why he’s going to Anam to shoot. Because if Junior Pope is busy, like every other artist here in Asaba, what will he be doing in Anam? Even just like me, I can’t go to Anam for one billion. Why? How? Even with the life jackets.”
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