18/05/2023
Movie producer, Zik Zulu Okafor has narrated how actor Saint Obi's marriage took him away from his friends and acting.
In an article he wrote after Obi's d£ath, Okafor who is also a former President of Association of Movie Producers of Nigeria, revealed that the actor's wife was a top executive in a telecommunication company and her siblings always saw him as a “gold digger."
Zik alleged that Obi was always harassed by his wife's siblings and this eventually led to the end of the marriage. He disclosed that the actor's health deteriorated mid last year before his eventual d£ath.
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"...
