Jim Iyke Speaks On Nadia, Kenturah, TB Joshua’s Deliverance & His Opinion On Bloggers

In Glam Magazine’s latest issue, your honey chocolate pie,
man of the moment, took out time to explain to the world about his ex, Kenturah Hamilton whom he spent 6 years of his life with, Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari
and ofcus your favourite bloggers explaining what he thinks about them and why
he hardly gives a Fcuk. Below is what he told them, enjoy;

Speaking of being controversial and why it is the case, he
quotes John Travolta saying “that this is the worst time to be a celebrity with
the advent of social media. What we do right now with all due respect is really
beyond Africa. Its not continental anymore, it has a global appeal. I represent
the continent to the world. Controversy is something that finds you, you don’t
find it, it is a mysterious propensity. I have a knack for speaking my mind, a
knack for doing something completely out of the norm. My philosophies are
different, I can’t do the conventional, I can’t be conformed, I don’t go with
the band wagon, I cannot be affiliated with a group or persons or philosophy or
idealism. I never go to do press on my own, the point is it finds me not
because I welcome it, but because I exist in an industry where I want to benefit
from without allowing the effect of the industry to rub off on me. When little
is known about a person that is in the public eye, things will be created in
order to fit that gap, and a lot of times they are blown out of proportion.

There are bloggers that know next to nothing about
journalism, they are what I like to call the ‘cut and paste journalists’, who
pretty much go to your twitter timeline, crop everything on there word for
word, then paste it on their blog. Everything is so easy now, and everybody is
incredibly lazy, and that is sad. So, these are some of the things that give
birth to a great deal of controversy when there is none. I mean what I have
done that seriously is out of context that no one else has ever tried; we are
human beings with all our feelings, our mistakes, short comings and weaknesses.
That is what makes us unique in who we are…”

Speaking of Kenturah he says “In the heat of the whole drama
between Kentura and I, people asked why I did not say a word. She released a
story to the press about how I wrecked her life, I believe it was the emotions
of the moment because that is not who she is and that would never define her, a
lady whom I spent 6 years of my life with. She is an incredible person,
incredibly beautiful, incredibly gifted, and incredibly generous with her soul,
her spirit. You cannot spend 6 years with a Caribbean girl if she is not
incredible. In our moments of grief and disappointments, we say things that we
do not mean. Would I hold it against her? Maybe I did, but I moved on 5 minutes
after, and I do not hold it against her. But she is always going to be a part
of my life; my history will never be complete without her. It completely spells
the measure of man that I am. I did not say one word and I still will not say
one word in respect of who she is. If she is right I will leave it for people
that know us to judge. They are the ones I owe my explanations too. I have
often said that I don’t owe anybody any apology as to the steps and decisions I
take in my life. I owe hardened fans an explanation and not an apology. People
that are waiting for me to wake up and say stuff have eternity to wait. She is
who she is, she said what she did. She may regret it or not, I do not know
because I never asked her, all I know is that someone spent 6 years with me and
come rain come shine, anytime she calls me I will readily rise to the occasion.
My life will never be complete with her and she will always have a special
place in my heart.”

And as for his business with Nadia?

“You don’t need a soothsayer to tell you nor do you need a
fake prophet to spell it out to you. I am the kind of man that drops hints; I
do not have to tell the whole story because it makes you lose your mystic, it
makes you lose the strength of your advantage over people. But here I am with
my BFF, an incredibly intelligent and beautiful person and I think that is what
I need in my life”.

After more than a decade being a bad boy, that viral
deliverance with the famous Prophet TB Joshua which trended for weeks (if you
didn’t know about that video then you must have been living in a cave) brought
more than popularity for Jim but a reconnection with God.

About that video and his thoughts on the public and some of
his colleagues suggesting he orchestrated it in pursuit of more fame, he says
“I will deem it completely reprehensible if I say what happened was
orchestrated like people suggested. Segun Arinze and Charles Novia, men that I
respected a lot, came out to say something completely derogatory of what happened
that day. I am not really cool with Novia, we have always been at odds with
each other, and nobody asked his opinion on what happened to another actor. If
you want to be relevant; direct movies and project your creativity, so people
will respect you more. Do not involve yourself in people’s private issues, I
don’t talk about your wife, I do not say she is overweight, nor do I talk about
the fact that you need therapy. I do not talk about your personal issues though
looking at you, I am sure you have enormous personal issues.

I do not talk about Segun, I know one or two things about
him like he knows about me. We are not that close so he has no authority to
talk about what happened in my life. He used to be like a big brother, one that
I respect, but he lost all that because of the way he went about this issue. I
had people that shared my experience, people that were happy for me. I went
there to get answers for something entirely different. There are things that
happen in your life that if you don’t have the answers to, you go to a higher
calling to make sense of it. When I got there, in a space of 5 – 10 minutes,
something transpired and till this day I do not know what it is. They thought
it was a PR gimmick that was to the gain of a synagogue church against one of
Africa’s top celebrities, and they needed some sort of validity and
authenticity, they believe I was used, well that is their opinion. You cannot
choose your time and place with God, you do not have that authority, God
chooses it. The medium with which it happened was through a man, but my focus
is the architect, so let them focus on man and a make mockery of it, I do not
care what they say, my focus is on God”.

A case of bad boy turned good man still on the spotlight. I
am still curious as to why Kentura Hamilton’s press release stated she was set
up to appear as a jealous and crazy lover in a scene from your reality TV show.
Could this be true? Still denying such happened he says;

“That is amazing. I must have set up the whole group because
everybody watched it. People are trying to say I orchestrated the whole picture
taking, whispering in girl’s ears and everything else that went on. That would
take a whole lot of setting up. Everything that transpired there is enough to
give a woman grounds to be upset, and she was. Did I tell her to play it up? I
don’t think so. We all saw a friend of mine take a fall from a convertible and
nearly break his neck; I would not put a friend in danger like that. My show is
called ‘Unscripted’, it will always be called Unscripted.”

So is this the case of the media or what is described as
‘New Media’ blowing things out of proportion and the public taking things
personal? “Oh Yes! They are bloggers that cannot feed themselves, and then all
of a sudden someone informs them that with a few hits, money would be
transferred into your account and it becomes an obsession. Any lives that get
wrecked in the wake of that obsession, they do not care about. There are some
good blogs out there, do not get me wrong. I am not a great fan of BellaNaija,
but she is smart, she is articulate, and she knows what she is doing. Even when
she attacks me or writes about me, you will know that there is the chance of a
researched truth, though it may not be in its entirety. So, there are one or
two good blogs out there that make an effort to research. Linda Ikeji is one of
the lamest of them all, and some others that do not make any effort, they just
cut and paste. There are people who are really trained for this job, they
understand this job, people who are intellectually gifted as writers, yet they
are taking food out of their mouths because of the new order of things. There
is one they call Ladun, me I call names if I want to, I do not care. This is
stuff that fellow so called celebs want to talk about but do not have the balls
to. This is part of the gains of already being labelled a black sheep, whatever
I say now would not shock anybody. I just keep it real.”