Story: Desmond Ike
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For those who have been following the growing career of gifted actress, Tonto Dike, you will agree with me that controversy is the middle name of the actress rose to stardom after participating in The Next Movie Star reality show in 2005.
The Ikwerre, Rivers State born actress made a controversial statement on twitter shortly after she was nominated under Actor of the Year category, alongside Ini Edo, OC Ukeje and Gideon Okeke, in the 2012 edition of The Future Awards which held in Port Harcourt. Here is what she twitted:
‘Itz another nomination (THE FUTURE AWARDZ) hopefully the Nollywood old desperate cargoz will not pay engineerz 2 Increaz their Votez this time. #shame’.
The controversial tweet which probably indicated that the actress noticed a foul play, got viral and raised counter speculations as to whom she had in mind.
Although, she was reportedly referring to Rita Dominic, whom she later apologized to, hours after,
When she was finally announced winner in that category, many alleged that her victory might be as a result of her earlier controversial tweet, which is believed to have rattled the awards’ jury.