Popular actor, McSmith Ochendu, talks about his love life,
several heartbreaks and career in this exclusive interview.
You are very popular with bad boy role in movies. But you played
a different character in ‘House of Bartholomew’.
I am also a bad
boy, but this is not the kind of bad boy I used to play. I came back from
Jamaica with nothing and I disturbed the entire village with my music. My fans
will surely find this movie interesting when it comes out.
McSmith Ochendu
has suffered series of heartbreaks.
Being one of the major players in AGN politics, how do you feel
about the court order restraining Ibinabo Fiberesima from parading herself as
president of the guild?
It was a
competent court that gave that judgement. I think it is stupidity on the part
of those who think the court made a mistake. Ibinabo Fiberesima was not
supposed to be the president of AGN in the first place because section 4(u) of
the guild’s amended constitution clearly states who is eligible to vie for such
position. Whoever has a court case is not eligible to vie.
In 2012, there
was a court order restraining the Board of Trustees from conducting elections
because there was a case in court between Emeka Ike and Segun Arinze. But
because we have a history of disobeying court orders, they went ahead to
conduct an election which is contempt of court to me.
The fact that
we are celebrities does not mean we should disobey or flout court orders. We
should be law abiding citizens. To me, the March 16, 2015 court ruling
restraining Ibinabo is a welcome development, and I urge every member of AGN to
queue behind Emeka Ike because he is trusted, tested and humane. I have worked
with him for a very long time, so I can vouch for him.
Before the Ibinabo saga, what has really been the bane of AGN?
It has always
been from one crisis to the other. This is because you cannot build on
illegality. We have one common enemy, the Board of Trustees. They see AGN as
their private enterprise. But God has delivered us from their claws.
We have got our
victory through the court. These same people didn’t allow Zack Orji pilot the
affairs of the guild the good way he would have loved to when he was president.
They harassed and sacked him, and brought in Ejike Asiegbu.
Ejike wanted to
continue from where Zack Orji stopped, but the BoT didn’t allow him because he
was not dancing to their tunes. These men (BoT members) have always been our
problem but thank God they have been dissolved. We are now breathing fresh air;
the story is no longer the same.
Actors Guild of
Nigeria (AGN) has left Egypt and we are now on our way to the promise land.
What are the five things you think people don’t know about you?
People don’t
know that I am a shy person. A lot of them see me as a troublesome person, but
I am not, although I am an activist. I don’t pretend, and anything I believe
in, I work towards.
You will know
if I don’t like you because I don’t know how to pretend. I hate injustice, so I
champion the course of the oppressed. I’m godly too. I love God, though my
looks give me away most times, looks can be deceptive anyway. I’m still single;
looking for a wife because good women are not easy to find, but I will do that
soon, even though there is no woman in my life now.
How romantic are you?
I am very
romantic. Those I have dated in the past can attest to it.
Considering you celebrity status, it is hard to believe you
don’t have a girlfriend for now…
But that is the
truth; I don’t have a girlfriend. I am not saying that I don’t do what other
men do, but I don’t have a girlfriend. Like I said earlier, good women are not
easy to find. I have had women in my life in the past; some came for the money,
some came for the fame. Good men are also hard to find.
I cannot beat
my chest that I am good or bad, but it is left for people who know me to judge.
I guess you have been a victim of heartbreaks
Severally…
severally. Maybe because I do not know how to love a woman, I usually love with
my life, and women sometimes don’t like men who give them their all. Some of
them like men who tell them lies. So I have had many heartbreaks… not once,
twice… I have lost count anyway.
Share one of these numerous heartbreaks with us.
I met a girl in
2001, dated her for eight years and took her to my father in the village. We
had a feast and a lot of people came around to celebrate with me for finally
bringing a woman of my choice home. But before I could say Jack Robinson, the
same girl I brought to my people started dating my uncle, who was richer than
me. They got married, but the union did not last two years. She had a son for
him. Since then, I have it difficult to love any woman.
Has it been an issue of once beaten twice shy?
Hmmm… I have
had heartbreaks before that time, but this one really shook me because I had
kept it for like eight years. Ending that way was really painful to me.
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