Jim Iyke Is On the cover of Glam Africa Magazine‘s Spring 2015 issue. Of
course, he granted an interview and in the interview, Jim Iyke poured
out his heart, lungs and ribs starting with Charles Novia, for
criticizing his deliverance session at prophet T.B. Joshua’s Synagogue
Church, Segun Arinze down to His ex- girlfriend, Kenturah and then his
BFF, Nadia Buari. And errmm, my fellow writers/bloggers, he has
something for us. Continue...
Starting with Charles Novia who condemned his deliverance as a PR stunt, Jim said:
“I
will deem it completely reprehensible if I say what happened was
orchestrated like people suggested. Segun Arinze and Charles Novia, men
that I respected a lot, came out to say something completely derogatory
of what happened that day. I am not really cool with Novia, we have
always been at odds with each other, and nobody asked his opinion on
what happened to another actor. If you want to be relevant; direct
movies and project your creativity, so people will respect you more. Do
not involve yourself in people’s private issues, I don’t talk about your
wife, I do not say she is overweight, nor do I talk about the fact that
you need therapy. I do not talk about your personal issues though
looking at you, I am sure you have enormous personal issues.”
And facing Segun Arinze, Jim continued:
“I
do not talk about Segun, I know one or two things about him like he
knows about me. We are not that close so he has no authority to talk
about what happened in my life. He used to be like a big brother, one
that I respect, but he lost all that because of the way he went about
this issue. I had people that shared my experience, people that were
happy for me. I went there to get answers for something entirely
different. There are things that happen in your life that if you don’t
have the answers to, you go to a higher calling to make sense of it.
When I got there, in a space of 5 – 10 minutes, something transpired and
till this day I do not know what it is. They thought it was a PR
gimmick that was to the gain of a synagogue church against one of Africa’s top
celebrities, and they needed some sort of validity and authenticity,
they believe I was used, well that is their opinion. You cannot choose
your time and place with God, you do not have that authority, God
chooses it. The medium with which it happened was through a man, but my
focus is the architect, so let them focus on man and a make mockery of
it, I do not care what they say, my focus is on God.”
Here’s what he said about Nigerian bloggers: “Oh
Yes! They are bloggers that cannot feed themselves, and then all of a
sudden someone informs them that with a few hits, money would be
transferred into your account and it becomes an obsession. Any lives
that get wrecked in the wake of that obsession, they do not care about.
There are some good blogs out there, do not get me wrong. I am not a
great fan of BellaNaija, but she is smart, she is articulate, and she
knows what she is doing. Even when she attacks me or writes about me,
you will know that there is the chance of a researched truth, though it
may not be in its entirety. So, there are one or two good blogs out
there that make an effort to research. Linda Ikeji is one of the lamest
of them all, and some others that do not make any effort, they just cut
and paste. There are people who are really trained for this job, they
understand this job, people who are intellectually gifted as writers,
yet they are taking food out of their mouths because of the new order of
things. There is one they call Ladun, me I call names if I want to, I
do not care. This is stuff that fellow so called celebs want to talk
about but do not have the balls to. This is part of the gains of already
being labelled a black sheep, whatever I say now would not shock
anybody. I just keep it real.”
When asked about his ex, Kenturah, He said: ‘
“In
the heat of the whole drama between Kentura and I, people asked why I
did not say a word. She released a story to the press about how I
wrecked her life, I believe it was the emotions of the moment because
that is not who she is and that would never define her, a lady whom I
spent 6 years of my life with. She is an incredible person, incredibly
beautiful, incredibly gifted, and incredibly generous with her soul, her
spirit. You cannot spend 6 years with a Caribbean girl if she is not
incredible. In our moments of grief and disappointments, we say things
that we do not mean. Would I hold it against her? Maybe I did, but I
moved on 5 minutes after, and I do not hold it against her. But she is
always going to be a part of my life; my history will never be complete
without her. It completely spells the measure of man that I am. I did
not say one word and I still will not say one word in respect of who she
is. If she is right I will leave it for people that know us to judge.
They are the ones I owe my explanations too. I have often said that I
don’t owe anybody any apology as to the steps and decisions I take in my
life. I owe hardened fans an explanation and not an apology. People that are
waiting for me to wake up and say stuff have eternity to wait. She is
who she is, she said what she did. She may regret it or not, I do not
know because I never asked her, all I know is that someone spent 6 years
with me and come rain come shine, anytime she calls me I will readily
rise to the occasion. My life will never be complete with her and she
will always have a special place in my heart.”
Finally, he addressed things with Nadia Buari. The movie star apparently had nothing to hide saying:
“You
don’t need a soothsayer to tell you nor do you need a fake prophet to
spell it out to you. I am the kind of man that drops hints; I do not
have to tell the whole story because it makes you lose your mystic, it
makes you lose the strength of your advantage over people. But here I am
with my BFF, an incredibly intelligent and beautiful person and I think
that is what I need in my life”.
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