For a while now, Nollywood screen diva and movie producer, Emeka Ike has been in the news for a while, mostly painted in a bad light.

Controversy sounding his marriage began with what seemed to be a rumour over his alleged constant beating of his wife, a mother of four.

A twist was added when it was reported that the Nollywood icon had dumped his family and moved on
with his Abuja-based sugar mummy.

Yet, another report made waves in the media, claiming that the actor had left the home home with two of their kids, leaving the others with their mother.

Recently, it was reported that the former President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) had accused Rev. Chris Okotie of being behind his marital travel, an allegation the Pastor has denied.

He had accused Rev. Okotie of hiring the services of a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria (SAN), for the purpose of destroying his home.

Again, the star actor is in the news over his marriage with his estranged wife, Suzanne.

In a telephone interview with Saturday Sun, the newspaper reports, Ike said, he has refused to make comments on the marital controversies because of the future of their four children.

“I have been saying, ‘no comments’ because I have taken time to see what could be saved about the marriage.

“Before now, I have maintained
silence because I have to save the image and the future of my children.

“The problem of a divorce is not the pleasure of the man alone, it is also not the convenience of the woman alone, it is more of the children.

“I came from a home where my father and my mother lived together, and he never for one day beat her. I don’t want my children to be embarrassed, so I kept mute for over two years now.

“So, when people ask, I say nothing is
happening; accepting everything to make somebody reasonable.

“You begin to ask questions, what is happening, and who is really interested in getting away with something evil in a decent society? I have not been doing anything illegal or illicit.

“The only issue has always been what I stand for; I am a firm man. I am a principled man.

“I build my life on the basis of integrity.
“So, when I say, ‘no’ people tend to say I’m stubborn.

“But nobody can say Emeka Ike threw somebody’s cup of garri away”, the actor was quoted to have said.

A twist, yet again, was the report by the Saturday Sun that its “investigation reveals that, early in the year, Emeka had dragged a young man to Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) alleging
assault.

According to the newspaper, Emeka had alleged that the young man was having an affair with his wife and was also threatening to kill him.

In the course of investigation, the young man was said to had been arrested and at the police station during interrogation, Emeka
kept repeating that his major concern is the safety of two of his kids, who were still in the custody of the wife.

The actor, the newspaper reports, said that he wanted all his children to grow in his house in Abuja under the care of his mother, who lives with him.

He was said to had alleged that his wife, Suzanne, decided to walk out of the marriage.

He insisted that he was still interested in the marriage, which he alleged was
in turmoil because of the bad attitude of his wife as a result of influence by her irresponsible friends.

Also an Indian woman, who was said to be the proprietor of Emeka’s school, was also dragged into the matter.

According reports, she was the one managing Emeka Ike’s school at Magodo area of Lagos State, before it was closed down.

On her part, she was quoted to had narrated that when the problem started, Suzanne (Emeka’s wife) was forced to take shelter in Mowe in Ogun State.

“This was where she could get an affordable house and started her life all over again.

“It was in the process, that the accused man decided to assist her.”, the report said.

According to the said Indian woman, Emeka misunderstood the whole process.

But on her part, Suzanne was quoted to have said that Emeka Ike’s action was a ploy to frustrate her so that he can gain custody of their four kids.

“I did everything possible to make our marriage work.

“He battered me at any little provocation.

“I had to stay at home as a full-time housewife just to ensure that our children do not lack parental care while he was always on the move because of his career.

“He threw me out of the house and left with two of our kids. I had no choice but to hold unto the last two who were still very small. I did all I could as a mother to provide for them”, the wife of the actor alleged.

But Emeka Ike on his part have insisted that he is not a wife beater as alleged by his wife in the reports going viral in the media on their marital challenges.

On their divorce suit in court, he said,
“For this matter, the court has justified my position by giving me judgment for the 13 prayers I made.

“It shows that I know what I was doing; I was acting on behalf of the system or
the society and the court feels my position and said, ‘yes’, this is what it should be like.

“And when you see the judgment, you will say, ‘yes this is what it should be like.’” Ike noted.

However, the actor cautioned that “Nobody should take advantage of that and put wrong information about me that I am beating my wife.

“What about my image? I worked for it
all my life”, he lamented.

On smear media reports against him, Ike queried, “Who is issuing the cheques; who is bringing out the money that is making this thing national news? Who is that man putting money behind the press men?

“I sit in my house and I watch a television programme, where one presenter, that should have known that the ethics of journalism is to be
professional enough to call the second party, did not even look at my side.

The presenter and her panelist started calling me names. And that, before God, never happened.

‘I felt caged in as a human being. Am I not locked-in by my profession? We are not mad people because we are entertainers”, he bemoaned.

Insisting that he wants his wife back home, he said: “I have been begging because I want to save the image. And there is nothing more to say.

“(To his wife he said) Please,
come back and take care of your children; somebody who used to look at their assignments when they come back from school; somebody who used to bathe them and get them ready for the next programme and worked with their father; this is what we agreed. What is happening?”, he further lamented.

With nostalgic reflection, the actor said: “You said you are not happy, you are having pain in your chest; I asked what do you want?

“She said she wanted to see a doctor.

“Let us go to the Medical Centre at Yaba. Let us go overseas to check everybody in the family.

“Let us go to Disney World to have fun to get back your grip in the marriage”, he pleaded.

“People just get involved because it is a stout relationship, everybody gets involved.

“And if you have a very bad woman, sorry about that, there is nothing I can do about it.

“If a man’s wife could leave her house and begin to do all sorts of damage to his image, is that right in African
context?

“And somebody will come and start saying Emeka Ike did this or not and he is called a bad man.

“Are their witnesses? Which neighbour will come and say yes?

“You don’t just wake up and say, constant abuses and then it goes viral, and a man begins to sponsor it; and every media house is reporting it as if it is big news. That is a bad
image battery”, he observed.

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