Ace Nigerian filmmaker and producer Zeb Ejiro has disclosed what actor Obinna Nwafor, popularly known as Saint Obi, discussed with him just days before his shocking death.
Zeh Ejiro buttressed the fact that Saint Obi’s failed marriage played a huge role in his demise because he was a family-oriented man.
Speaking in an interview with Vanguard, Ejiro said Saint Obi couldn’t survive the shock of living apart from his family.
In his words: “Obi told me a couple of times that his marriage was crumbling and it was eating him up. He was a family man, somebody that loved to stay with his kids and build a happy home. But when his marriage crumbled, it really affected him and he never recovered from the shock till death.”
When a man is not together with his family, he will be depressed. No man wants to go into that kind of situation and be happy. So, that contributed to his death.”
Zeb Ejiro stated that he received a call from Saint Obi two weeks before his death in which he intimated him about his protracted illness.
Ejiro narrated: “Two weeks before his demise, my phone rang and it was Saint Obi on the other end. I asked him where he had been; that everybody had been looking for him. That was when he told me that he had been down and was admitted to a hospital.
He added that he had done multiple surgeries and his condition wasn’t improving. His elder sister then made arrangements to move him to Jos, where he could be given proper treatment. That was the last time we spoke, as I promised to reach out to him again. But I never did, as the next thing I heard was that Obi is no more.”
Last week, movie producer Zik Zulu Okafor released an article where he narrated how actor Saint Obi’s marriage took him away from his friends and acting.
Okafor, who is also a former President of the Association of Movie Producers of Nigeria, revealed that the actor’s wife was a top executive in a telecommunications company, and her siblings always saw the actor as a “gold digger”.
He alleged that Saint Obi was always harassed by his wife’s siblings, and this eventually led to the end of the marriage. Okafor disclosed that the actor’s health deteriorated midway through last year before his eventual death.
The iconic actor, 57, reportedly passed away on Monday, May 7, following months of visiting the hospital for treatment of an undisclosed ailment.
