Movie producer , Zik Zulu Okafor has narrated how veteran actor, Saint Obi’s marriage took him away from his acting career and from his friends.

The movie producer, in an article dedicated to the deceased, spoke out on his turbulent marital life and how his wife, was calling the shots in the marriage.

According to him, he said his wife, who was a top executive at a telecommunication company, and her siblings saw him as a ‘gold digger’.

He alleged that Obi was always harassed by his wife’s siblings especially her brothers, which eventually led to the end of the marriage.

Zik disclosed that Saint Obi’s health deteriorated mid-last year before his death.

“Their marriage was at best a dramatization of love. It was quick. He barely told us that he found a wife. Then, the marriage happened. It was something of a mystique, only those involved understood the histrionics that played out. None of us who were his closest pals, who walked with him through the crucible to the crest of his career in Nollywood, was invited. The distance between us and the guy I admirably called Saint of the Storm had begun. This gulf would widen with each year. We saw him perhaps once a year after this marriage.

And life actually seemed to have given him a fair shake of the dice. He dressed well, drove big cars, and even his skin, in literal lingo, spelt wellness.

But more tragic is the fact that his marriage did not only take away Obinna from his friends, it took him away from Nollywood. Saint stopped acting, absconded from his career and perhaps his calling”.