why Mikel rarely comes to see him. He also spoke on his relationship with Mikel's twin daughters. Read excerpts from the interview below:
DT: How did they treat you when you were with them?
Obi: We slept on the ground, and for the five days we were with them, there was heavy rain for three. It drenched us under a tree. It was only once that they brought us Okpa and pure water. Miraculously, I was never hungry. My thoughts were on how to get home safe.
DT: How different was the experience from the one of 2011?
Obi: Those first kidnappers did not treat me as badly as these ones. Though I stayed in a bunker for 11 days during the first, they gave me food and the only time they beat me was when they captured me.
DT: Was any ransom paid then?
Obi: None was paid. It was the handwork of God
DT: Your son Mikel paid the recent ransom. What’s your relationship like?
Obi: It is an issue, but we don’t know what to do. It’s over five years now without a phone call from him to me. But he communicates with his mother. There is nothing I have not done to fix it. God has told me that I should not feel hurt. When we start to talk about it, I say, ‘Well, as long as I see him on TV, doing great, no problem’.
DT: But some people say he called you recently...
Obi: During the just-concluded World Cup, one or two days to one of their matches, we spoke. He called his mum, and she told me that Nchekwube (Mikel) was on the phone and I told him that God will see him through. I prayed for him. That’s it. When he first joined Chelsea, my people in Anambra were very happy that God has blessed their son, and when he came to Abuja, they prepared very well with the hope that he will come to our hometown. They even made some magazines. It was grand. But he didn’t come. It was a shameful thing to me, as a father. He once told his brother that sometimes he picks his phone to call me, but something tells him not to.
DT: Have you met your grandchildren, the twins, yet?
Obi: Sometime last year, he was to bring them so that I could name them, he said he would. But he didn’t. His other colleagues frequent home, so I don’t understand.
DT: Do you encourage him to invest at home?
Obi: Isn’t that why kidnappers are targeting me? Because they think the money he makes, he ships it to me to make investments.
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Ehikamhen Austin
I'm amazed people are finding it hard to believe this punch line...
It's only obvious that people have not taking out time see the real mikel. He's not accommodating.
Like we forget so fast, what he did to our 2Baba at the club abroad, and there so many other things I might want talk about now. .. trust me mikel is so out of line.
It's only obvious that people have not taking out time see the real mikel. He's not accommodating.
Like we forget so fast, what he did to our 2Baba at the club abroad, and there so many other things I might want talk about now. .. trust me mikel is so out of line.
Moses Ilogu Kukere Landers
It is non of our problem..
Don't get involved in other people's family issues because you don't want people to be involved in yours...
No body knows where this story is coming from..
Don't get involved in other people's family issues because you don't want people to be involved in yours...
No body knows where this story is coming from..
Olekan Adaramola
Mr Eddy..... this news! But that same man is driving Mercedes GLK350!! And owns fleet of hummer buses travelling round this country!!! Kinda confused here!!