Nollywood actor Emeka Ike has said that he’ll fight, with
everything he has, to clear himself of the wife beater image his ex wife has
labelled him, as he isn’t one.
He said this while speaking to Punch, adding that his divorce is
illegal, as neither him nor his lawyer was at the court to sign the divorce
papers.
He said:
The court dissolved my marriage illegally; I want people to get
it right.
For you to dissolve a marriage, the man and his lawyer must be
present in court to sign some documents. Ask them, was either my lawyer or
myself present in court on that day? Is it possible to say the marriage has
been dissolved?
My wife says that I am a wifebeater but the same woman two years
ago in church during counselling, wrote it down that I am a caring man who is
selfless and loves his family. She wrote that I love her and my lawyer still
has the written note. She made this statement at The Redeemed Assemblies of God
church in Magodo, Lagos. Can I possess all these and still beat my wife?
Six months later, she began to sing another tune and I know she
was advised by some people that it was the only way to leave the marriage.
As to why he has refused to sign the divorce papers, Emeka Ike
said:
The reason why I have not signed the papers is because of the
blackmail involved and my name that has been tarnished. She is spoiling my
name; I would fight to clear myself of being called a wife beater with
everything I have.
I hate being referred to as a wife-beater because I am not one.
Any man that does that does not deserve to be called a father or a man because
you are stronger than the woman,
He said his children are scared of his ex wife, their mother,
and do not want to see her.
My children do not want to see their mother. When my daughter
heard she would be taken to Lagos to be with her mother, she was crying
profusely because she did not want to go to meet her. The children are scared
of her.
People have been asking me how my children have been coping with
this whole drama but the truth is that they don’t want to see her. If you
threaten our daughter that she would go to Lagos to meet her mother, she would
cry and do everything you want her to do in the house just because she doesn’t
want to see her.
Now my children are suffering emotionally, I even had to pay
their matron double the money she asked for to make my children comfortable so
they don’t really miss their mother.
I am not happy that my daughter does not have a role model. The
children are really irritated by their mother. I have a lot of evidence of
child abuse against her but I am waiting for the right time to arrest her. Even
in court, her son testified against her.
She has tried to use the press against me by saying that I am a
wife-beater but I have never touched her in my life. This is a real story and
not a joke.
Her best TV station is the criminal investigation channel; she
stays up till 4am to watch the channel for over five years. At first, I used to
enjoy watching it with her. She watched the programmes about women who killed their
husbands, children, relatives. How would you wake up by 4am and not see your
wife on the bed only to go downstairs and see her watching that station as if
she is taking notes.
I had to ask her if she wanted to kill somebody with the way she
watched the station but she just switched off the television, went to her room
and slept.
This is the story of my life. This is a woman whom I brought out
of a one room apartment she was living with her mother, the other room was
covered with zinc but I built a two-bedroomed apartment for them.
I went to her village and built a three-bedroomed apartment for
her. I trained her from secondary school to Master’s degree level. Is this how
she is supposed to pay me back?
No one is looking at all this but they would go online to say
that I am bitter. Some men suffer like me but they died for nothing. That is
why I dedicated my award to all the men that lost their lives to the women they
loved.
Concerning the photo of him and a South African lady he is
rumoured to be dating circulating the internet, Emeka Ike said:
People saw a picture of me and a lady together and they have
already begun to conclude different things.
Love is not a public thing but a private matter, however, the
lady I was pictured with is truly a South African and also of a German descent
but she is my friend and we took pictures.
People should leave it like that. When I want to get married
again, everyone would know and that is if there will be anything like that. But
at the moment, the lady is just my friend.
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