Jim Iyke, the sensational actor, has admitted that his iconic brawl with controversial actor Uche Maduagwu was staged.
Jim Iyke and Uche Maduagwu had a fight in August 2021.
It all started when Maduagwu called Iyke out for living an opulent lifestyle in Lagos.
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When Maduagwu was asked about Iyke’s fortune, he stated he heard the fellow actor doesn’t buy fancy clothes in Nigeria and instead gets them imported from outside.
Many people believed the tweet spurred Iyke to confront Maduagwu, to the point where he was prevented from fully engaging in a fistfight with him, as seen in the popular video.
In a new development, Iyke claims that the video was staged to promote his film, ‘Bad Comments .’
Speaking in a chat with Chude Jideonwo, Iyke said: “My fight with Uche Maduagwu was orchestrated. I have given you two scoops. Do I look like the kind of person that just before the introduction of one of the important works of my entire career, will go and jeopardize it by myself. No, I am too strategic. It was orchestrated. I wanted to tell them to paint the picture like the social media eco system. I can orchestrate anything and you will perceive it. That will show you that, that world is surreal. There is nothing that exists in that world”.
On how it was planned, he said:”I called the men, paid very well for it, we had an understanding, wrote the script called Moses in, we shot it.I am about to release the ending of it.I am not stupid. I will never make that kind of mistake..I understand the people’s mindset, their propensity for gossip and bad news.We buried over 20 million in the promotion of that film and people were still viewing it with a certain degree of cynicism .Immediately there was a scandal, it caught fire”..