Uduaghan’s N10m largesse to Eddie Ugboma tears Nollywood apart as short changed journalist alleges fraud

L-R: Uduaghan presenting the cash to Ugboma in Govt. House, Asaba

The recent N10 million largesse given to controversial filmmaker, Chief Eddie Ugboma by Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, after the former declared in a national newspaper the frustrations and bottlenecks he has been experiencing in his quest to meet the latter one on one, is already causing a serious problem in Nollywood. 

SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report that one of the journalists involved in the ‘deal’ is already crying foul play and alleging fraud.

 The journalist, who for now wants to remain anonymous is well known in Nollywood and has been consistently writing about Ugboma.

In fact, the short changed journalist was equally instrumental in bringing Ugbomah’s plight to Uduaghan’s attention via his column before the governor finally fixed an appointment with the filmmaker in Delta State.

Accompanied by three journalists, Ugboma landed in Asaba. After Ugboma narrated his woes including his forthcoming celebration of 50 years as a filmmaker and proposed film village, Uduaghan dashed him the sum of N10 million cash.

Uduaghan, we reliably gathered told Ugboma to use half of the cash for his celebration and the other half for his moribund film village.

The journalists that went with him were not left out of the largesse as they were given N500k each.

However, the sharing formula among the pen pushers did not go down well with this anonymous journalist and he is threatening to expose all the dirty deals that happened in Asaba.

He is also alleging that the third ‘journalist’ Ugboma took to the controversial trip was an imposter whose identity remains questionable.

The journalist who is angry and disappointed is alleging that Ugboma deliberately brought in the imposter to represent him before Uduaghan.

Sadly, he only knew about this high wired fraud after those that went to Asaba had returned and happily shared the largesse that his story brokered.

In a brief chat with SHOWBIZPLUSng, Ugboma confirmed receiving money from Uduaghan, but quickly added that it was for his film village project and nothing more.