The stupendous wealth, capital investment and fabulous lifestyles of epitome of beauty and one of Nollywood’s richest female actors, Chika Ike have been put under scrutiny as tongues have began to wag over the source of several riches and foreign trips of the super rich thespian.
According to one of her close
friends who preferred to be anonymous, the last trips of the producer of
African Diva, a super reality TV show currently airing on major TV stations
gulped almost a fortune and the beautiful actress combed most of the world’s
expensive cities like the UAE, Paris and so on lounging on first class, staying
in seven star luxury hotels whilst on a shopping spree adventures all over
world.
A source confided in National
Enquirer that, the actress had always wanted to live on her beauty, hence the
reason she didn’t blink an eyelid to walk out of her marriage when her hubby
allegedly raised an eyebrow over some of her secret moves years back.
‘’How many movies has she featured
in and how much is she getting from a role that she owns all those wealth, mansions
everywhere, in Abuja, Lagos, expensive Range Rover rides and wonders on wheel
and flying first class ticket and also throwing expensive Yachts party
everytime, we’re all women now, haba, she put gold for toto ni! We know how he
dey go abeg’’, the source told us further.
And ever since she parted ways with
matrimony, the sky has been the beginning for the actress as she has achieved
so much within years of walking out of her marriage. Aside the multimillion
Naira property investments in Abuja, the actress has invested big time in real
estate as well as owning fabulous mansion in Lekki, Lagos.
This office gathered exclusively
that, Chika Ike’s closeness to one of the directors of a high profile insurance
firm, International Energy Insurance-IEI in person of Patrick Ugboma might
allegedly be the source of some of her sudden wealth. We were told that, the
man who’s also an oil baron have so much soft spot for the actress that, he can
part with anything to make her happy and some of the gifts he has allegedly
showered on her is the black Gwagon she got last year, 2016 among others.
The man, Patrick Ugboma is same person being
alleged to have owed Diamond bank to the tune of billions of Naira and he was also
linked to a multimillion debt scandal with Union bank.
Mr. Patrick Sule Nduka Ugboma Ph.D, also known as Pat,
serves as the Managing Director of Dec Oil & Gas Limited, an indigenous Oil
and Gas servicing company and Enernational Nigeria Limited. Mr. Ugboma worked
at Wesco Engineering Services where he rose to the position of Branch
Co-ordinator, Port Harcourt and Star Ware Housing Shipping Services where he
rose to the position of Operations Manager. He serves as the Chairman of
Cogipar Nigeria Limited, Vernon Engineering Services Limited, Soul Petroleum
& Gas Nigeria Limited and Newtech Services Nigeria Limited. He served as
the Chairman of International Energy Insurance Plc. He serves as a Director of
Integrated Microfinance Bank (MFB) Plc and C & I Leasing Plc. He served as
a Director of International Energy Insurance Plc. Mr. Ugboma is a Member of
12th Committee, Port Harcourt. He is also the President of Mater Dei Old Boys
Association, Port Harcourt Chapter and Patron, Nigerian Union of Journalists,
Delta State Chapter 1993. Mr. Ugboma obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in
Management from Imo State University Owerri and Nottingham University, Nottingham,
England. He also holds a Honorary Doctorate Degree in Management from his alma
mater, Imo State University.
The actress has always been linked to rich
married men, at one time, the story of her affair with the former Senate
President, David Mark who she was alleged to have milked for investment
advantage was all over the news and now, it’s Patrick Ugboma at the center of
the new controversy. Though, the source informed further that, Patrick Ugboma’s
wife is likely to be in the know because of latest developments, she has
however promised to give us feed back as soon as she’s done with the
investigation.
As if she’s been expecting this scrutiny, the
actress had prepared a response for her detractors, “As a woman, people have a
way of disregarding your successes, they attribute it to so many unthinkable
things to reduce your achievements. As women, we are strong, powerful,
intelligent, smart and driven. We can achieve whatever we set our minds to
achieve. I told myself 5 years ago that I’ll start my real estate company and I
stand today to say I’ve been able to achieve most of my set goals, I say this
without pride but to encourage young women out there.
Continuing, she said, ‘’I’m a hard worker, I’ve
worked for virtually everything I have today with also the grace of God on my
side. People are going to say all sorts, call you names to make themselves feel
better, but hey, don’t listen, just stay focus on your set goals. It’s not
going to be easy, but trust me, it will be worth it. I like what I like, I love
the designer shoes, bags, dresses and splurging on vacation when I want to and
that isn’t bad if you can but also set aside money for investments and helping
the needy because life is full of hills and Valleys. Peace”.
We however tried to get Mr. Patrick
Ugboma for a response but all to no avail, efforts to talk to the Corporate Affairs
department at IEI proved abortive while the number, 234 1 4616972 written on the
website of his management company, S&P Global
Market Intelligence located on Jide Oki Street, Victoria Island, Lagos is said
to be out of service as at the time of filing this report.
Faith Irabor
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