By Saidu Idris
365Daily – Popular Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, has opened up about his weird relationship with the late controversial cleric, Prophet TB Joshua, the former head of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations.
The actor in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo on his show, he disclosed that he had gone to the church in 2013 because of his ailing mother, who was taken there for spiritual healing.
The photo and video of the actor in the church went viral at the time as he was seen gyrating under the spell of alleged evil spirit.
Many had attributed the incident to a publicity stunt but Iyke insisted that he was truly unaware of what happened to him at the church. He blamed the church for manipulating him and taking advantage of his vulnerability over his mother’s condition.
According to him, “When orthodox medicine failed us, I took my whole family to India to be with my mum and then she started getting better. This is the light of your life for crying out loud and I am not going to wager it for theatrics, for melodrama.
“At some point, an offer was made to take her there by a senator friend of mine. I refused, the pressure was too much, so I said, ‘Okay I want to go, if they will save her, I will go’.
“We put her in a hospital close to there. I went there, there was a presidential suite I was accorded. When I went there, I was like ‘Okay, let’s get started’, they said I must come down to the service. I said, ‘I don’t have to come down to the service, you people promised to heal her, does God need me to?’
“I said ‘I will live in this church for two years if you heal my mum’. So after a while, they had a meeting and said, ‘You need to come down.’ I remember I was there, my sister was behind me when this guy came and was doing stuff. When he crossed me, I chuckled.
“Then he came back to me. My brother, I don’t know what happened after that.
“This world is deep, there’s a spiritual something I’ve come to notice about this world that is way beyond us. What happened I don’t know, I saw the video and said that’s not me but that was me.”