Filmmaker Zik Zulu has revealed that his dysfunctional marriage and his inability to see his children caused the death of actor Saint Obi.
According to Zik Zulu in a lengthy write up on Facebook, disclosed that when Saint Obi was about to marry, none of his close friends were aware. They only got to find out that he was married which he described as strange.
According to him, after Saint Obi married his wife, he started distancing himself from his close friends. Zik Zulu emphasized that the marriage of Saint Obi took him away from his friends, his life, and his acting career.
Read his lengthy post below.
[div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"]The Marriage And Death Of Saint Obi[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]By Zik Zulu Okafor[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]His social life was blunted. Perhaps by his reticent disposition. His persona, two dimensional. To a distant public, he was upscale and cool. His manly bearing spoke loud. His onscreen image ironically amplified some idiosyncrasies; heroics, romantic adventures, and traits that did not gel with the mortal privacy that eerily define his quiet and lonely life.[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]Saint Obi, real name, Obinna Nwafor, was shy, almost bordering on timidity and insecurity. He cherished the pleasantly tranquil interactions among a few friends. He would vanish at any outburst that could upset the poise of such small meetings. As he repeatedly told me, he just wanted to live a cool, quiet, and fulfilled life.[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]But, has he lived this cool and fulfilled life he envisioned? I have my doubts.[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]I tell Saint’s story here with painful tears in my eyes; because he was a star, a super star whose life turned out a gleam of irony.[/div][div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"]Yet, it was this stardom that fetched him his much-professed financially strong and powerful wife. And their wedding, that solemn ritual of love would drastically alter the cause of his life and tragically yank him off the creative community that threw him up for the wife to capture and indeed conquer.[/div]