Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, says Chris
Okotie, head pastor of Household of God
Church, is not a man of God but an anti-
Christ.
Ike was speaking to TheCable after
learning of Okotie’s reaction to his
claims that the pastor was abetting
the crisis in his marriage to Suzanne
Rero.
The feud between the actor and his
wife had deteriorated to the point
that his wife filed a divorce suit
before a customary court in Lagos.
Specifically, she is seeking dissolution
of her 12-year-old marriage over
alleged assault by her husband.
After Ike made the claim, Okotie
spoke through his media aide, saying
he would not “dignify Emeka Ike with
a response”; and the actor has now
questioned the pastor’s popularity
and spiritual calling.
“I think his (Okotie’s) comment is a
clear indication that he lacked the
evidence to fault my allegation,” Ike
said.
“Is Pastor Okotie well-known and
popular as I am? How can he say he
will not dignify me with a response?
His comment actually confirmed my
suspicion that my wife is being
manipulated either through blackmail
or spiritual enchantment to say she
was opting out of her marriage after
12 years.
“For instance, at the last proceeding
on the divorce suit, my wife said it in
the open court that she was willing to
abandon her four children and go out
of the marriage. Which woman will
say she was abandoning her four
children if not under a spell? It is
clear to me that Okotie is not a pastor
but an anti-christ.”
He accused Okotie of hiring a senior
advocate of Nigeria (SAN) for his
wife, just for the purpose of
destroying his home.
Ike alleged that Okotie gave his wife
about N500, 000 for her mother’s
burial and also bought her a
blackberry porch phone. He accused
Okotie of calling his wife and other
single women out in church every
Sunday and directing that gifts should
be given to them.
He further alleged that Okotie and
another man in the church helped his
wife to secure a job without his
consent. This other man, he said,
recently experienced problems in his
own marriage as well, over a love
message from Suzanne.
“I want people to look into this issue
critically. I’ve never beaten this
woman in my life. When she ran out
of home, I called my pastor and they
took us for counselling. For one week,
I was begging her every day; I would
go home alone and she would go
home alone as well,” Ike added.
“At a point, pastor asked us to write
five things we like and dislike about
each other. The pastor said that
maybe we could work it out. I wrote
mine, she wrote hers and she never
said there that I used to beat her. I
still have that document with me. She
gave me what she wrote and I gave
her what I wrote.
“If I used to beat her, she could not
have left it out from that then. Any
man that beats a woman is a coward.
I know that someone somewhere must
have done something to her. How can
I beat a woman I adore so much? I
love my family and this is very
unfortunate. Her children have been
begging her to come home, and she
has refused.”
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