Nollywood comic actor, John Okafor widely known as Mr. Ibu, has
narrated how he was brought back to life by God after he was killed by
unknown men.
Mr. Ibu said he would not have been alive to tell his story if not for God who gave him a second chance to live.
Ibu was reported to be down with a stroke recently but the comic made
a video to debunk the report, however, the story was not far from the
truth.
The 57-year-old said he was attacked and hypnotized while he was in
Nnewi, Anambra State to grace an occasion organized by one of the big
shots in the town in December last year.
The actor narrated the incident for the first time in an interview
with Vanguard as saying, “All the stories flying around; the issue of
stroke among others are funny to me. This is because the original
problem I had was on the 24th of December last year.
“An Nnewi-based business mogul, Ebube Chukwu Uzo, had invited me to
come and perform at his party. I was in London when he contacted me on
the telephone.
“I promised him that I would be back soon. So, I left London for
Lagos on the 19th of December. I made a brief stopover in Ivory Coast
where I spent few a days before returning to the country on the 22
December.
“On the morning of 24 December, I flew into Enugu to assemble my dancers and artistes before heading to Nnewi by road.
“When we landed Nnewi, I never knew that the people who had been in
touch with me all this while were the enemies of my host. They were busy
diverting my movement out of the appropriate place.”
“And before I knew what was happening, I found myself in a hotel they
claimed to have booked for me. While I was waiting for them there, I
went to a quiet place to avoid creating a scene. I kept communicating
with them until they arrived at the hotel.
“My P.A was the only person who was with me at that moment.
“But few minutes after he went downstairs to buy soft drink (because
he said he was thirsty) two men dressed in white clothes walked up to me
and immediately, I suspected they were the people I was waiting for.
“I stood up because I was lying down when they arrived. I looked at
their faces and saw them smiling at me. I said to them ‘where are we
heading to?’ Nobody replied me.
“I said okay, if you are my fans there’s no problem. Before I could
finish speaking, a big blow landed on my nose and mouth. I passed out
immediately, and later my lifeless body was lying on the floor while my
spirit was hanging in the air.
“I wasn’t standing on anything neither was I holding anything. I was
seeing what the two men were doing to my body but they were not seeing
me. I was surprised they were not seeing me where I was standing. My
spirit was seeing them.” Ibu meant that his physical body was lying
lifeless on the ground but his spirit was seeing them as he had left his
body.
“They succeeded in putting life out of that body before they left the
place. Meanwhile, one of the cleaners in the hotel saw what happened to
me and raised an alarm before my P.A and other sympathizers rushed down
to the place where my lifeless body was lying on the ground.
“They tried to revive me but to no avail. I was hearing what they
were discussing, but they couldn’t see me. At a point, the owner of the
hotel suggested that they should take my corpse to the mortuary but my
boys refused.
“The following day, which was 25th of December, they moved my body to
a nearby hospital in Nnewi where the doctor on duty confirmed me dead
and advised my boys to deposit my corpse into the mortuary.” “My boys
refused to adhere to the doctor’s advice.
“They moved my lifeless body to Enugu on the 26th of December. When
we reached Enugu, they took me to one herbal hospital and the first
doctor that examined my body confirmed that there was no life in me any
longer.
“My boys did not give up. On 28 December after the doctors couldn’t
revive me, while in the spiritual realm, a face like a masquerade was
revealed and was smiling at me.
“It later disappeared before two hands appeared from the blue and
commanded me to go back. Immediately, I woke up , and everybody took to
their heels. When I woke up I could neither walk nor talk again.
“It was obvious that something happened to me. On the 30th of
December, my wife arrived Enugu and when she saw me she started crying,
while I was laughing. At a point, she started playing with me. She held
my hand and was teaching me how to walk again.
“Soon, I started regaining my senses. On the 30th of December I
finally regained full consciousness. I asked my wife what we were doing
in Enugu. I said to her, ‘I told you I was going to Nnewi; how come we
ended up in Enugu?’
“My wife told me to calm down; that she was going to tell me
everything that happened along the line. And when I regained full
consciousness she narrated everything that happened to me. I was
dumbfounded.
“That’s how I came back to my senses. After I was discharged from the
hospital the man that invited me to Nnewi managed to send my flight
ticket back to Lagos with that of my wife.
“That’s how I returned to Lagos alive, and since then nobody has called me to inquire about my condition of health.
“But I thank God that the will of my enemies did not prevail against my life.
“They couldn’t kill me because God knows I didn’t offend anybody,” he added.
