Nigerian Movie producer, Zik Zulu Okafor has recounted how his late colleague, Saint Obi’s marriage took him away from his friends and acting.
The former President of the Association of Movie Producers of Nigeria revealed this in an article he wrote after Obi’s death.
Recall that after he and his wife filed for a divorce, Saint Obi battled his wife, Linda Amobi, over the custody of their three children.
In a lawsuit filed by his lawyers, the actor alleged that his wife attempted to kill him. He also alleged that Linda ‘imprisoned’ their three children with the help of men from the Police Force, adding that they prevented him from seeing his kids.
Following his death, Zik Zulu Okafor has recounted how late Saint Obi’s marriage took him away from his friends and acting.
According to him, the deceased’s wife was a top executive in a telecommunication company and cause of how rich he was, her siblings always saw him as a “gold digger” and harassed him.
This eventually led to the end of their marriage. The actor’s health deteriorated mid-last year before his eventual death.
The article in part, reads;
“Their marriage was at best a dramatisation of love. It was quick. He barely told us that he found a wife.
It took another three years for Saint to return to his homies. But when he did, some of the deeply disappointed ones sniggered behind him. This was because the simmering rumours of cracks in his marriage had hit home. And though secretive in his ways, he knew it was time to open up. And he did. “I do not know why my wife’s sibblings see me as a gold digger. They confront me, harass and fight me in my own matrimony. And my wife did nothing to stop them. I work hard, I earn my money. I have never depended on my wife”, he lamented, eyes blurred with tears. You could tell he was in deep pain. By the next visit, the Saint returned with a deep cut from knife on his left eye. His wife’s brothers, he said, scaled the wall fence of their house to attack him. They were captured by hidden closed-circuit television, CCTV, installed for surveillance and security, he revealed.
“He reported them at the police station and subsequently acquired a gun to defend himself. This effectively marked the beginning of the end of his marriage and perhaps Saint Obi’s long walk to a sad end. He moved out of his marital home to a new house to begin the reconstruction of his destiny, alone without his wife and worse still without his three beautiful children.
“About mid last year, however, Obinna took ill. But he told no one. He simply became scarce. He was in and out of hospital, we would later learn. He sold two of his three big cars”
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