Fans of Nollywood actors Odunlade Adekola and Ibrahim Chatta are slugging it out on social media as they debate who is a better actor between the duo.
Odunlade and Chatta are prominent Yoruba actors who have been in the industry for over a decade.
While Odunlade could be said to be more popular among social media users with his hilarious reactions in movies which have been adopted as memes, Chatta has a relatively low social media profile.
The post which ignited the debate was shared by a social media user who had insinuated that Odunlade’s lack of fluency in English language is limiting his acting career.
He tweeted:
“The only thing that has limited Odunlade Adekola’s career is not being really good with English. Imagine an Odunlade Adekola with a spoken English ability of Richard Mofe-Damijo? UNSTOPPABLE.“
The debate has positioned Odunlade on the trend list on Twitter in Nigeria.
See some of the reactions:
You people should stop this nonsense, who told you guys that Odunlade can’t speak proper English? Using Twitter doesn’t mean y’all should be so, judgemental, and ignorant I’m a 100 percent sure you cannot match his level of intelligence whoever you are.
— Egbowon Daniel (@FirstBorn700) June 3, 2019
Nobody in the Yoruba Film Industry is better than MR Odunlade……..Mans is practically the face of Yoruba Movies. https://t.co/R7miOJy7Wh
— Voorhees (@Ojeaga_) June 3, 2019
If you are a producer will you reduce a top actor to herbalist role? When you know he should be the lead actor??? He is virtually the face of the movie, why give him a side role?? When people even watch some movies simply because odunlade is in the movie?
— Mr Belut of Canada?? (@misterbelut) June 3, 2019
I can’t believe people are actually doing this, I mean people are actually comparing Ibrahim Chatta with Odunlade Adekola. Some are even saying he is better than Odunlade??????
Ha see gobe.
— Ayo FBI (@PureMind__) June 3, 2019
Odunlade over acts too
Doesn’t allow others to talk, he will interfere and talk for a long time
Femi Adebayo is my best actor though
— Online Osemawe ?? (@IamMikkyPel) June 3, 2019
Who acts better?
Ibrahim chatta can act any role and his english is peng
Odunlade is a comedian, the meme Lord and all his movies are awesomeOdunlade can’t act like chatta pic.twitter.com/TZ7l0qjNMt
— jamila ?? ✳ (@mobytoolz) June 3, 2019
Odunlade is crossing, he has the talent to dominate the industry. He’s not so fluent English might limit that. But he’s learning and working. He’ll get there. Chikena
— call me BRO-ther (@dami_larey) June 3, 2019
Naah. It’s okay if you say odunlade is all these and more but chatta is also very versatile. Very very sef
— headmistress (@bebe_la_hot) June 3, 2019
We call this youruba movie, so we don’t expect you to speak English, speaking English in movie like this is not of his standard, we need to respect the standard
Odunlade and Ibrahim are good actors,who are difficult to compare.. pic.twitter.com/7zJTDeM7Jz
— Sebastian Bal Bisif (@Sebastianbal10) June 3, 2019
All of you saying Odunlade isn’t as good as ibrahim chatta because he cant act herbalist roles,producers wont even want to use him in that role becos its more like waste of talent,when he could be the Lead role and face of the movie.Some People watch yoruba movies because of him.
— Mr Belut of Canada?? (@misterbelut) June 3, 2019
