In a recent revelation, Nollywood actor Emeka Ike shared an encounter with Festus Keyamo, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, following the dissolution of his school by his ex-wife.
Speaking to the press for the first time since the incident, Ike disclosed that Keyamo, who was expected to be his lawyer, advised him to “move on.”
Reflecting on his experience, Ike emphasized that Keyamo, not being a minister at the time, offered counsel considering the extent of the damage.
“How can you get the school back? What is his name, the Minister for Aviation now, Festus Keyamo was to be my lawyer before he became a government man. When he saw the damage, he said, bro…move on. The school is messed up,” he said during a live interview on Rubbin Minds, Channels TV.
During the interview, the actor disclosed how Emma, his ex-wife, caused him to lose all his properties. The dissolution of Emeka Ike’s marriage to Emma was finalized on March 3, 2017, by a Lagos Island Customary Court, citing alleged continuous battery as the reason.
He shared that his marital struggles led to a prolonged period of depression.
“My secondary school, St Nicolas College on CMD road, Magodo, was shut down, over N480m investment shut down that year, and all I heard was a constant battery.
”I was always saying, common I never beat this lady, I went on air, called her, ‘saying babe, do I beat you, but then they said, you are a star and they can always manipulate things and all that.”
“Later I discovered that she was actually the one behind the whole thing”.
“You have to be a very successful man to be a woman beater, because no carpenter or poor man is a woman beater, and there are people like Iyabo ojo to back them up,” he added.