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Meet Nollywood star who dumps DSS career for acting

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Meet Nollywood star who dumps DSS career for acting



A stranger could be pardoned for mistaking actor and movie producer, Bimbo Sunday, for a banker. His look, mien and bold fashion statement say it all.

However, only few people are acquainted with the fact that the Nollywood star was a former operative with the Department of State Services.

Baring his mind on how he managed to swap such roles successfully, Sunday stressed that it was bound to happen because ‘when passion drives a man, he leaves certainty for uncertainty.’

“I started acting at age 10; I started in the church then, Christ Apostolic Church (WOSEM). Thereafter, I joined the Osupa Ola Theatre group in the year 2007 in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State under the leadership of Oladeji Ikuolayole. To the glory of God, I started full-blown acting in 2017 when I resigned from my appointment from the Department of State Services,” he said.

When asked how he felt resigning from the DSS to join the acting industry, the Ondo State-born actor disclosed that it was a hard stance he took after careful deliberation.

Sunday said that he knew from the outset that his choice of career would shock many especially his wife when he eventually mustered up courage to announce it.

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“My political boss, former Governor Olusegun Mimiko once said and I quote: “I have prepared myself for all I will do as governor of Ondo State when I was first made Commissioner for Health”. So, the governor had the template of how he wanted to reshape Ondo State even before he became governor. So, I have prepared myself that it is going to be tough.

“Since I have made that decision of making acting my career, then I have prepared my mind for any challenge but I left because of the passion I have for acting. My own definition of passion is leaving certainty for uncertainty because I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. When I was about to resign, my wife came to me and cried saying ‘what kind of madness is this? You want to leave a Federal Government job for something that is not certain?’ Then I asked her a question that you as a civil servant, are you so pessimistic that I wasn’t going to make it through acting?

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“She couldn’t say a word and I said that for the fact that God has provided us with our own house, we both have cars and I know for the next two to three years, it is not going to be easy, but I have prepared myself and when the challenges were coming, because I was already expecting, it makes it made it easy for me to face,” he said.

An emotional actor, Sunday told the reporter that he knew he was leaving a good job and didn’t know what the future really had in store for him.

The former DSS man also knew that it was not going to be easy but vowed to follow his passion nevertheless.

“I had to follow what makes me happy. I can tell you for free, if I don’t act I can run mad. If I stay at home for a whole month without going to a movie location to shoot, which God has not allowed to happen, I can start acting somehow. I have seen acting as my joy and happiness. If I didn’t leave DSS, who knows, I might have become a nuisance in that profession by now.

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“You know I grew up in Ondo city, my mother was from Ondo town while my father was from Abeokuta in Ogun State. I attended AnSar-ud-Deen Primary school in Yemonja Yaba, Ondo, I attended Ondo Boys High school, later I obtained ND in Mass Communication from The Polytechnic Ibadan, I had Bsc. in Criminology and Social Work from Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko and to the glory of God, we are still learning.

“When I was growing up, people saw the prospect in me, from the way I speak and narrate stories. Even when I was in primary school, people would gather to listen to me tell stories of movies I watched. Even when I was working with the DSS, I had many of my colleagues who would tell me I was just wasting my talents working with the DSS, because everything I said they would laugh, even my gesticulation made them laugh. So, growing up for me was very rough, my parents were average people but they were able to send us through school,” he said

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