By Balarabe Oshiafi
The Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC), a staunch ally of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to move Nigeria’s fledging democracy a notch higher with a first-of-its-kind movie entitled Unbroken.
Yesterday at Merit house, Maitama, Abuja a galaxy of Nollywood Actors came together at IPAC’s prompting to conduct an audition for the movie, which as ExpressDay Newspaper gathered is meant to x-ray the whys and wherefores of Nigeria’s democracy since 1999.
“At the end of the day, this film will stabilize patriotic fervour in the citizenry as it would have been found out that there is no convenient option to democracy”, Tony Goodman, a veteran Actor told this reporter.
The Chairman of the advisory council, Yusuf Dantalle gave credence to Goodman’s words while welcoming Actors to the press conference which predated the audition. He enjoined movie practitioners and all of Nollywood, “which parades young persons aplenty” to keep faith with democracy adding that all hands need to be on deck for the economic benefits of democracy to be available to all and sundry.
He told ExpressDay that the film project is just one of the many initiatives it has lined up to help stabilize and advance twenty five years of Unbroken democracy in Africa’s largest country.
Actually just the previous day, Thursday at the Continental Hotel (formerly Sheraton hotel) Abuja, IPAC has organized the first of it’s roundtable series: 1st Inter-party Advisory Council roundtable, with the theme:the role of the Judiciary in Nigeria’s democratic sustainability. The subject was dissected by a senior advocate of Nigeria, Jibrin Samuel Okutepa.
Some of the IPAC upcoming events include a book presentation and the movie.
As the coordinator of these upcoming events, Chris Oge Kalu told ExpressDay, “they are not limited to these two”.
Some of the notable thespians who attended the audition are, Ama Ignis, Dunhill, Tony Goodman, Empress, Sydney Ndiala, Steve Eboh
