Veteran Nollywood actor, Yemi Ayebo, aka Yemi my Lover, has appealed to the general public to support him financially to enable him get back on his feet.
This is coming days after his colleague, Actress Jumoke George received a N5 million gift following her please for help.
In a recent interview on YouTube, the filmmaker blamed movie marketers for his predicament, noting that the success of his film did not translate to wealth for him.
He also begged his colleagues to help him with jobs and connections within the industry as a means to escape lack.
“I wrote and produced the movie in 1993. The movie cut across Nigeria, especially in the Yoruba-speaking part of the country. But I didn’t make money from it because 90% of the money was gotten by piracy.
“I didn’t make profit from the film because there was no social media, so I don’t have opportunity to promote it widely. As a result of this, the movie was pirated, and the marketers waged war against me for handling the marketing myself. It was distributed illegally, and people made profit from it.
“That marked the beginning of my problems. I’m broke right now. The industry is about connections, I need more connections to get back on my feet”.
