Why I sought healing at TB Joshua’s church – Jim Iyke

‘I’ll never be desperate again’ – Jim Iyke vows after experience with TB Joshua, others

Jim Iyke, a Nollywood actor, has disclosed the circumstances behind his 2013 visit to the late TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations to seek healing for his mother.

Teju Babyface, an award-winning actor, stated in a YouTube video posted on Tuesday that he sought religious healing for his mother out of despair. On April 1, 2014, however, his mother, Esomugha, passed away.

The actor had disclosed in January 2022 that he had bribed Uche Maduagwu, a fellow actor, to defeat him in a 2021 viral video.

In August 2021, Iyke beat Maduagwu up for doubting his richest source. At that moment, the video went viral.

Iyke stated in an interview with Chude Jideonwo that he paid Maduagwu after they came to an understanding and that the beating was planned.

“I called the man, we had an understanding, I paid very well for it, rolled out the script, called Moses in, we shot it and we’re about to release the ending of it. I’m not stupid. I will never make that kind of mistake,” He said.

Iyke went on to say that it was part of his marketing plan for the film, Bad Comments.

“We buried over N20m in the production of that film and people were still viewing it with a certain degree of cynicism. Immediately there was a scandal, it caught fire,” he added.

In an interview with Babyface, he claimed that he had been financially “extorted” by a number of men of God over his mother’s illness, with the assurance that she would survive.

He said, “I will never be desperate again in my life. Desperation was what took me there, to take my mother there, hoping that a man of God would heal her. If she were to live, 20 TB Joshuas would not stop her.

“It was her time, nobody would have made me enter that space, he was not the only one I went to, I have been to five or six men of God, is it because I do not want to mention names? How they drove me, the money they took from me”.