Nigerian actor, Zik Zulu Okafor has revealed how the failed marriage of late actor Obinna Nwafor aka Saint Obi caused his death and made his to abandon Nollywood.

He said: Obi told me a couple of times that his marriage was crumbling and it was eating him up. He was a family man, somebody that loved to stay with his kids and build a happy home. But when his marriage crumbled, it affected him and he never recovered from the shock till death.

“When a man is not together with his family, he will be depressed. No man what’s to go into that kind of situation and be happy. So, that contributed to his death”.

Movie producer, Zeb Ejiro while speaking with the Vanguard said he received a call from Saint Obi two weeks before his death.

“Two weeks before his demise, my phone rang and it was Saint Obi on the other end. I asked him where he had been; that everybody had been looking for him. That was when he told me that he had been down and was admitted to the hospital. He added that he had done multi surgeries and his condition wasn’t improving. His elder sister then made arrangements to move him to Jos, where he could be given proper treatment. That was the last time we spoke, as I promised to reach out to him again. But I never did, as the next thing I hear was that Obi is no more”.

“The actor and his wife, Linda Amobi, parted ways last year after a running battle over the custody of their three children. The couple married in 2006 and have three children, two boys and a girl, together.“