He is a veteran and still very much active in the Nigeria entertainment
industry. Akintola Akin Lewis is a man of different parts and needs no further
introduction.
There are different prices stars like him pay for fame and the thespian
can’t seem to forget in a hurry, the day his ‘crazy’ female fan set him up, by
placing a bet on him.
He recalls the ugly and embarrassing incident, “Aaaaah, people that
know about this story will be smiling as they read this.
One day, the lady just landed suddenly in Nigeria with her bags and
everything. She called me and said ‘dear I have landed in Nigeria, I have a
party to attend and I’ve gotten all you needed to go to the party with me’. I
was just shaking. At a point, I didn’t know what to do.
I asked her, ‘what do you want from me? I didn’t know you before, there
is nothing between us more than you are one of my friends on Facebook’ I was so
scared that I asked ‘what kind of life is this?’ I believed it was a setup to
destroy my name. I just told her ‘sorry I can’t go to the party’. But she kept
pestering me.
When she didn’t want me to rest, I fought her, and I told her she must
be mad with all her actions. She angrily fought back, saying lots of things to
me. She mentioned one name which happened to be her friend. From what she said,
I knew that she and her friend had taken a bet over me as to who gets me first.
Can you imagine I didn’t even know when she went back to England? My friends
started calling me ‘FF’ from that period. Whenever we hear ‘FF’ we will start
laughing because it’s a crazy story that I can never forget,” he narrated.
Akin Lewis is a marketing communications expert, a producer, director
and one of the most talented actors in Nigeria. He became a star as early as 22
years old having featured in a TV sitcom, Why Worry.
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