Popular Nigerian actor and comedian, John Ikechukwu Okafor, (born 17 October 1961) and popularly known as Mr. Ibu, is a man surrounded by strange facts and mysteries. In this report, Daily Review Online brings to you 10 strange things you didn’t know about Mr. Ibu.
By Ihechi Enyinnaya
1. Mr. Ibu has been married for five times. His fifth marriage is about crashing and he says this is the worst of his earlier four marriages.
2. He accused his wife of being behind one of the times he was poisoned. Right now, he no longer eats food cooked by her.
3. He has an adopted child, Jasmine…who now consists for him and 8s behind the recent accusation of infidelity by his wife.
4. His wife confessed before the police that all the infedility and lack of care accusations she made against him were false.
5. He bought three cars for his wife at once: one for church, one for domestic errands; and the third one going out with her friends. He said the day he gave her those cars was the beginning of his marital problems.
6. Mr. Ibu has 10 cars and landed properties scattered all over Nigeria.
7. He has a cousin whom he suspected was one of those behind his problems. Then Mr. Ibu hired a gun, drove to the village with the intention of killing his cousin. Suddenly, his late father appeared to him and warned him not to kill his cousin and that if he did his entire life would be in shambles. He drove off drove, but while on his way, he saw the very cousin, and he was calling out to Mr. Ibu to stop, but he did not.
8. Mr. Ibu has 12 sons, and four daughters. His first son is married with four children; some of his children are graduates, while some are still in school.
9. He once suffered from dementia which the thought of his wife worsens. He says of this: “I could even be counting money, and throw it in the dustbin. It is after I must have thrown it away that I would remember it was money. I would then have to retrieve it from the trash. Sense is very costly. Once I remember anything about my wife, my mood would change instantly.z”
10. Mr. Ibu does not drink and does not smoke.
*Adapted from an interview in the Punch.