End of the Road for Mr. Ibu aka (aka John Okafor)?

There are few ways that show a person is a star in their profession. One is the amount of money and benefits the position gives the recipient, the other measurement is the amount of popularity one generate from their career.

John Okafor aka Mr. Ibu was such a celebrity but the future now looks bleak for the big belly Nigerian-African comic. A few months ago, Mr. Ibu went to a soccer match in Lagos according a close source when he was met by a storming crowd.

When the news spread that that Mr. Ibu was on the field, spectators, referee and linesmen run amok to get glimpse of Mr. Ibu leaving the players alone on the field.

As Mr. Ibu ran to his car, a sharp pain burn in his stomach, according to a medical reports gathered from a Nigerian doctor in Lagos. By the time he got to his 2008 Toyota, a cold clammy sweat covered his body. Mr. Ibu hand shook violently as he involuntarily pissed upon himself.

As fate has it, a private physician who checked Ibu leaked that the Star comic has an abdominal cancer but our reporter couldn’t independently confirm this information.  Reports also have it that one of Nollyhood favorite is left with few months to live according to a confidential medical report gathered by a Star reporter from a close relative of Mr. Ibu.

While his family struggles to secure international medical help, his Manager, Chief Johnny Obada is determined to keeping this information a top secret.

On his bedside at the busy Lagos Hospital sat Ibu’s only sister from the same mom crying loudly as other relatives lined up in the hospital discussing the fate of the super star.  

According to relatives, Doctors had previously advised Mr. Ibu to controlled his eating habit but he failed to pay attention, instead he doubled his daily menu to five bowl of pounded yam with fish and vegetable, four bottle of Guinness Stout, assorted wines, ten loaf of bread and not mentioning the two baskets of plantains, cassava mix with palm oil he eats for breakfast.

“I go chop what I wan chop, na enjoy I da enjoy. If I go die, let me die naw, but I da chop well, well.” Ibu said to a doctor in the presence of a Star reporter.