Jim Iyke challenged those questioning his version of what transpired at the synagogue in 2013 to prove that TB Joshua paid him to pull the stunt
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigerian actor’ James Ikechukwu Esomugha, popularly known as Jim Iyke, has once again narrated what transpired at Synagogue Church of All Nations nine years after the encounter.
The 45-year-old actor was at the church in 2013, to find healing for his ailing mother but ended up being hypnotized by the founder of the church, TB Joshua according to him.
Narrating his ordeal during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, on Instagram, Jim Iyke said he had no recollection of what happened at the church on that fateful day adding that the encounter almost ruined his acting career.
According to him, after visiting the United States and India in search of a cure for his mother’s ailment, he was advised by a senator friend to visit the church.
He initially resisted the idea but bowed to pressure from his family and relocated her mum to a hospital very close to the church.
He said, “When orthodox medicine failed us from Houston. I took my whole family to India to be with my mum and she started getting better. This is the light of your life for crying out loud, I am not going to wager it for theatrics, for melodrama.
“At some point, an offer was made to us to take her to the synagogue by a senator friend of mine. I refused but after much pressure from my family, I said okay, I want to go if they will save her, I will go.”
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Jim Iyke went on to say upon taking her to Synagogue led by late TB Joshua, the church abandoned the woman she brought and shifted attention to him.
He also said they insisted he should come to the church but he declined because her mum’s healing does not require that he attends the service.
He however went to the church only to be hypnotized while his mum whom he took there for deliverance was left unattended to by the late man of God.
He continued, “They told us to put her in a hospital close to the church. There was a Presidential Suite I was accorded. While I was there, I said okay, let’s get started, they said I must come down to join the service. I said I don’t have to come down to join the service and that you people promised to heal her. Do God need me to be there…
“I said I will live in this church for two years if you heal my mum. So after a while, they had a meeting and said you need to come down. I remember I was there, my sister was behind me when this guy came and was doing stuff. When he crossed me, I chuckled.
“Then he came back to me, my brother. I don’t know what happened after that.
“This world is deep, there’s a spiritual something I’ve come to notice about this world that is way beyond us.
“What happened I don’t know, I saw the video and said that’s not me but that was me. I am not an island of knowledge. I have done my part. But one thing that’s of a truth is that until I die, I am the true son of Gladys. I will never and ever do away with her memory and legacy by telling lies.
“I have said it time and again that if what I have said is not true, let somebody come and prove that he gave me money. My mum was in a coma in the hospital. What disappointed me was the fact that TB Joshua didn’t touch her, he didn’t even see her eye to eye. I thought my career has ended after that day,”
Jim iyke who recently said he was once married, had said he is deeply hurt by the synagogue deliverance experience which went viral in 2013 and nine years after, the actor still blames Prophet TB Joshua for the melodrama.