Yoruba Nollywood actress, Eniola Ajao has addressed concerns expressed over the choice to name socialite, Bobrisky, the “Best Dressed Female” at the “Ajakaju” film premiere.
Ajao explained in a recent interview with Arise TV that while it was intended to be a humorous promotional ploy for the film, it appeared to have gone too far.
The goal, according to the filmmaker, was to get people talking about the movie, which was accomplished. However, when actor Femi Adebayo presented the award to Bobrisky, netizens took offence and called him out, even though he was not a judge.
She explained;
“It was all jokes. We just want to have fun. We want people to talk about the movie. My team and I decided that it needed to be in the faces of people. So we decided to give the Best Dressed Female award to Bobrisky since he has always been a very controversial person.
At the end of the day, people started talking about it but some people are not happy. They started calling out Femi Adebayo who presented the award. He just presented it, it wasn’t his idea, he was not part of the judges. Nigerians shouldn’t slam him, please.”
