Nollywood was thrown into another mourning period on Saturday as the news filtered around that one of its high ranking members, John Okafor popularly known as Mr Ibu has passed away.
Mr Ibu’s death occured in less than 24 hours after the demise of a popular Yoruba actor Quadri Oyebamiji (a.k.a.) Sisi Quadri.
The veteran nollywood actor had undergone surgeries that led to the amputation of his leg. The sickness took him away from movie industry for over three years
It would be recalled that in 2019 Mr Ibu alleged that his kinsmen paid some of his domestic workers to poison him because of his successful career.
In an interview with Vanguard Newspaper, Okafor disclosed that he was already “seeing people on the other side” but God brought him back to life.
He said, “My illness was actually perpetrated by people that hate me. They did what they did to me. Later, I was taken to the hospital. The doctors are prophets. So, they went into my system and they told me what was wrong and what they are going to do. I said ‘Whatever you are going to do, please, do it, let me live because if I die like this the enemies will laugh’. And then the doctors said ‘Okay, there’s no problem’
“At the time, I didn’t know what happened. I left! So, whatever I was saying they recorded it. I was saying something like somebody who is going mad. I wasn’t actually seeing anybody. But on the other side where I was at that time, I was seeing some dead people.. God brought me back.”
He said his enemies were happy about his illness and thought he wouldn’t make it but God brought him back to life.
The actor said his sickness taught him a “big lesson”, adding that he is surprised that he is still alive.
