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Nollywood actor 'Mr Ibu' recounts near-death experience

'Mr Ibu' [Photo: Courtesy]

Nollywood actor John Ikechukwu Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, has recounted a remarkable claim of being poisoned in a sickening plot weaved by jealous kin and executed by conniving staff.

Opening up about the incident in an interview with Nigizie TV following the near-fatal poisoning, Mr Ibu narrated how the masterminds from Enugu, southeastern Nigeria, paid off the would-be killers who in their first attempt lured him to Anambra State where they forcefully tried to make him ingest poison.

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