{"id":235628,"date":"2025-09-13T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/bob-manuel-udokwu-denies-insulting-pete-edochie-says-he-was-misquoted\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:32:19","slug":"bob-manuel-udokwu-denies-insulting-pete-edochie-says-he-was-misquoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/bob-manuel-udokwu-denies-insulting-pete-edochie-says-he-was-misquoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob-Manuel Udokwu Denies Insulting Pete Edochie, Says He Was Misquoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Veteran Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, has dismissed a statement attributed to him that insinuated that his colleague, Pete Edochie, was parading himself as the oldest actor in Nollywood.<\/h2>\n<p>Udokwu asserted that he was misrepresented in a podcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview with NollyNow, he clarified that he started acting in Nollywood before Pete Edochie, but did not say Edochie was \u201cparading himself and deceiving others\u201d as the oldest actor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He explained that he was referring to the modern Nollywood industry, distinguishing it from earlier works like \u201cThings Fall Apart,\u201d in which Edochie starred.<\/p>\n<p>Udokwu, who is the Special Adviser on Entertainment, Leisure and Tourism to Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, emphasised the importance of respecting elders in African culture and expressed his admiration for Pete Edochie, acknowledging that Edochie is older than him.<\/p>\n<p>He said,\u00a0\u201c<em>I granted a podcast interview along the lines that I was in Nollywood before Pete Edichie, in an answer to a question posed to me by the host of the show. But the statement: \u2018as he is parading himself and deceiving others\u2019 is certainly not from me. I was misrepresented.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s a very wrong thing for them to do. I never said that. All I said was that if you are referring to Nollywood, I started acting before Pete Edochie. He may have started acting before me like in \u201cThings Fall Apart\u2019, but the TV series was not part of Nollywood. Kanayo O. Kanayo had said the same thing many years ago. They now wrote that I said he was parading himself and deceiving others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI acted in \u201cCheckmate\u2019 and \u201cWhen the Sun Sets\u201d, but I don\u2019t count it as part of Nollywood. Pete Edochie is older than me by far. In our African culture, we don\u2019t disrespect our elders. I will never disrespect Pete Edochie.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of  Tee Global Innnovations  [abiaradios@gmail.com].  [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, has dismissed a statement attributed to him that insinuated that his colleague, Pete Edochie, was parading himself as the oldest actor in Nollywood. Udokwu asserted that he was misrepresented in a podcast interview. Speaking during an interview with NollyNow, he clarified that he started acting in Nollywood before Pete Edochie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":235629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1973,1974],"class_list":["post-235628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bob-manuel-udokwu","tag-pete-edochie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1dd2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}