Aww! Actor Emeka Ike has appealed to his wife
to come back home because the children are missing her. Recall that last week, viral reports claimed that Emeka Ike had been served divorce papers by
his wife after 12 years of being together. She was reportedly fed
up of being physically abused by the Actors Guild President.
Well, see excerpts from his interview with Punch below:
“I also read the news of the divorce
online when someone called my attention to it. I have not got any letter
from any court yet, so it is all still speculations. Every family has
its challenges and people disagree over issues a lot. Marriage is not
just about husband and wife but the children. I will not play with that
mandate because my children are my prerogative and they have to be
properly protected. Nobody should mess them up because of all these
rumours,” he said
If my wife says I am a wife beater, the children would have witnessed
such. I have a 14-year-old boy who is grown and has moustache now, you
can ask him if I have ever beaten his mother. Never in my life have I
raised my hand to beat my wife. I adore that woman and I love her a lot.
If she wants to use my love against me, no problem and if people do not
believe me, they should go to my former residence in Lagos to ask my
neighbours if they ever heard that I beat my wife.
Rather when my wife
starts making noise like women normally do, I use that period to train
my children. I would ask my children like this, ‘what do you do when a
woman begins to nag at home?’ They would tell you that the next thing to
do is pick your car keys and drive off. That is the normal training I
give my sons so that they would never beat their wives. If my wife wants
to leave me, she should have just said that it is due to irreconcilable
differences and not that I am a wife beater.
It would mean that she is
trying to get unnecessary sympathy and I don’t think she would say such.
When I showed my children what was on the internet, they were sad and
said that it was a lie because I don’t beat their mother. I am a father
of four children and I must protect them first before I even protect
myself. That is why I would never say any bad thing about their mother.
God would judge us all in life. Anyone who sees my wife should tell her
to come back home to her children because they need her”