My ex-wife made me lose properties, access to kids – Emeka Ike reveals

My ex-wife made me lose properties, access to kids – Emeka Ike reveals

Emeka Ike, a veteran actor, has revealed the complexities of his divorce and how his ex-wife contributed to the loss of all his properties.

Emeka Ike’s ex-wife, Emma, filed for divorce in a Lagos court after 12 years of marriage and mothering his four children. Her main reason for wanting to end the marriage was her husband’s constant beatings.

In a candid interview with Rubbin Minds on Channel Television, Emeka Ike revealed how his ex-wife staged a false assault accusation, leaving him high and dry without access to his own flesh and blood, his children.

Emeka Ike passionately narrated how he returned from the US, only to uncover the heart-wrenching reality that his ex-wife had closed down the multi-million school he had built.

The actor went on to say that his wife not only sold all of his houses, but she also lost all of his lands to people after selling them.

His only asset upon his return, he claimed, was the luggage he had brought with him.

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.

Ike said he believed his ex-wife was blackmailed by some “gunmen” she was involved with into divorcing him.