Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke has revealed that desperation made him seek healing for his mother, Esomugha in 2013 at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, whose founder, Pastor Temitope Joshua (popularly known as TB Joshua) died on 5th June 2021.
In an interview with Teju Babyface, shared on YouTube on Tuesdaym the award-winning actor said: “I will never be desperate again in my life”. church.
Madam Esomugha died on 1st April 2014.
In January last year, the actor said that he paid fellow actor, Uche Maduagwu to beat him in a video that went viral in August 2021.
Iyke was seen in a video that went viral beating up Maduagwu for questioning his source of wealth.
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo at that time, Iyke noted that the beating was orchestrated and that he paid Maduagwu after they reached an agreement.
He said: “I called the man, we had an understanding, I paid very well for it, rolled out the script, called Moses in, we shot it and we’re about to release the ending of it. I’m not stupid. I will never make that kind of mistake”.
Iyke added that it was his strategy to promote his movie, Bad Comments.
“We buried over N20 million in the production of that film and people were still viewing it with a certain degree of cynicism. Immediately there was a scandal, it caught fire”, the actor revealed.
While speaking with Babyface, Iyke said he had been “extorted” financially by several men of God over his mother’s ailment, asserting she would live.
“I will never be desperate again in my life. Desperation was what took me there, to take my mother there, hoping that a man of God would heal her. If she were to live, 20 TB Joshuas would not stop her.
“It was her time, nobody would have made me enter that space, he was not the only one I went to, I have been to five or six men of God, is it because I do not want to mention names? How they drove me, the money they took from me”, he said.
