Emeka Ike, a veteran Nollywood actor, has described how his separated wife Suzanne Emma’s allegations caused him to lose his possessions and access to his children.
According to the report, Emeka Ike and his wife’s marriage was annulled in 2017 by a Lagos Island Customary Court due to repeated violence.
On July 13, 2015, Emma petitioned the court to terminate her 14-year marriage to the Nollywood actor.
The marriage resulted in four children.
During an appearance on Channels Television’s Rubbin’ Minds, presented by Hero Daniels, Ike claimed that his ex-wife’s assault charges caused him to lose properties worth millions of naira.
He said he did not come forward to clear the air about the domestic abuse allegations against him because the people “bullying” him were not his friends.
Ike said, “I didn’t come on the internet space to clarify the allegations against me because it’s difficult to clarify because the same people that were bullying me on the internet, they were still there. They are gonna say, ‘Don’t mind him. He is still missing her. Move on.’
“And if you’re not prepared to handle it, you will be crushed. My secondary school, St. Nicholas College, on CMD road, Magodo, was shut down. Over N480 million investment that year was shut down. And all I heard was constant battery. I was like, ‘I don’t beat this lady. What’s going on? Babe, what’s going on? They said I beat you, do I?’
“And she [my ex-wife] said, ‘No. But you’re a star, you know, they can always manipulate things and all that.’ So, I was gullible until I discovered that she was actually the one behind all this whole thing. Some ladies are too desperate for marriage legally. And she actually told me one time that I am not the marriage type. And I didn’t understand it. So, the young men need to know that there are plenty ladies that are not the marriage type lately.”
He said he sponsored his ex-wife’s higher education but didn’t know that he wasn’t “loved in return.”
The thespian said he and his family members begged his ex-wife not to divorce him, but she was adamant.
“She [my ex-wife] went to divorce herself. She said, ‘Judge, please, divorce me, I want to go.’ I said, ‘Kilode? Where are you going?’ I was on my knees. Felix Duke was on his knees. My sisters were on their knees in court. Even the people that came with my ex-wife to court were on their knees. They said, ‘Are you okay? What’s wrong with you?’ We didn’t understand what was going on in her psychology,” he recalled.
Kanyidaily recalls that Emeka Ike’s four year old son drove car into supermarket and it has generated series of controversies.
