I Don’t Blame Tope Alabi For Not Performing, I Don’t Even Celebrate Birthdays – Lizzy Anjorin

Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin and gospel singer, Tope Alabi are currently at loggerheads.

This is coming after the singer refused to perform at a surprise birthday organized for Lizzy, and fans have been reacting.

Also reacting, Lizzy revealed that she can’t blame Tope Alabi for her decision to not perform at her surprise birthday party, and she would instead criticize her fans for spending money on the failed surprise party rather than supporting her business.

Lizzy added that if the gospel singer is so hell bent on judging her, she is thankful that her Creator does not.

Her words, “I don’t celebrate birthdays, only a wicked person would claim I do. I’m not in a position to judge their reaction, but if I had invited them myself, I wouldn’t have paid them anything.

I am holier than you, Aunty mi Tope. If we are to ask what is your impact in the society? I am holier than you. I have impacted lives than you. I have empowered lives than you. If you say you have empowered people, they are people who fed off you, not people in the society. I have done more good, I have added more value to the society than you. Aunty mi, If I should count them all, it will take more than a year. I have done beautifully well. I am pure. If you judge me, I am thankful that God does not judge me.”

WOW.

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.