{"id":1184386,"date":"2022-08-19T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/i-acted-in-two-films-in-10years-tonto-dikeh\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:16:22","slug":"i-acted-in-two-films-in-10years-tonto-dikeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/i-acted-in-two-films-in-10years-tonto-dikeh\/","title":{"rendered":"I Acted In Two Films In 10years-Tonto Dikeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Actress Tonto Dikeh has spoken about the reason why she may not be returning to her Nollywood acting career after the governorship election in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Dailypost earlier reported that the actress was announced as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with BBC News Pidgin, Tonto said she will not return to acting even if her party loses the governorship election in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she has completely retired from acting, the mother of one said, \u201cI don\u2019t like movies like that again and it\u2019s been a long time since I acted on screen, you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve acted in about two films in 10 years, I appreciate that my path started from Nollywood, it is something that I respect, but it\u2019s not something that has been in my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo even after the election, it\u2019s not something I\u2019ll return to, but I\u2019ll love to contribute to the industry when I get into power,\u201d she indicated.<\/p>\n<p>She went ahead to commend her colleagues, Funke Akindele and Banky W for their courage and participation in politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not easy for Funke and Banky W at their level to put themselves out there to effect change because criticisms and so many things are involved.<br \/>\u201cI believe in Funke, I believe in Banky. With them, I can hold onto something and say I believe that they have a vision for the people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Tonto Dikeh has spoken about the reason why she may not be returning to her Nollywood acting career after the governorship election in Rivers State. The Nigeria Dailypost earlier reported that the actress was announced as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State. In an interview with BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23871,15401,887,9274],"class_list":["post-1184386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-10yearstonto","tag-acted","tag-dikeh","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}