As the Actors Guild of Nigeria prepares to go for elections in November this year, there are doubts as to whether the elections will come off as planned considering the legal tussle between current president, Segun Arinze and Emeka Ike. There has been bad blood between Emeka Ike and Segun Arinze over who is the rightful head of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) with Emeka dragging Segun and the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Actors Guild to court in 2010 over the issue. The power struggle began last year when Ejike Asiegbu, the former National President of the AGN refused to vacate the seat or conduct fresh elections. The BOT headed by Prince Ifeanyi Dike, bowing to pressures from members, suspended the president and appointed veteran actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, as interim president. Ejike according to reports quickly organized an election which saw now president Segun Arinze emerge as president. That election coincided with another election organized by Kanayo O. Kanayo also producing Emeka Ike as president of the guild. Segun is alleged to have forced the BOT to form a coalition of a sort from the two camps. The BOT subsequently made Sugun president of the organisation - an arrangement Kanayo faction was not in support of. Emeka Ike was subsequently banned by the Actors Guild on the grounds that he had consistently misconducted himself. Emeka Ike however returned to a Nigerian Federal High court last Monday, six months after a court threw out his suit against Segun Arinze and BOT on technical grounds. While the case has been adjourned to October 26, 2011 due to the fact that the judge was indisposed, counsel for Emeke Ike, Malcolm Omirhobo has warned the AGN not to proceed with the elections while the matter is still in court. According to him, any election conducted by the Segun Arinze-led administration will be null and void since he is not the rightful head of the AGN. Arinze cannot give what he does not possess. Yakabu Abubakar, the Secretary General of the AGN has also been quoted as saying the general elections will come off as planned unless the court rules otherwise.