Actor Jim Iyke has revisited an encounter with Prophet TB Joshua, founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
The actor recounted his experience with the late televangelist in an interview with talk show host Teju Babyface posted via Instagram on Tuesday, where he insisted he was forced to take his sick mother to the prophet for healing.
“The only thing they could do was attack my personality, attack my integrity, I’ll never be desperate again in my life. Desperation was what took me there, to take my mother there, hoping that a man of God, quote and unquote would heal her. She lives here day and night, I still have conversations with her, she’s never left. When I’m done praying with God she is the next person, I know how many times my mum appeared to me in dreams, if she were to live twenty TB Joshuas will not stop her,” he said.
Speaking further, the movie star said: “It was her time, nobody would have made me enter that space, he wasn’t the only one I went to, I have been to five or six men of God, is it because I don’t want to mention names?? How they drove me the money they took from me.”
A video of the actor purportedly undergoing deliverance at the church and confessing that an evil spirit was tormenting his life went viral in 2013 after his visit to Joshua.
During an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo in February 2022, Jim said he went to TB Joshua because of his mum’s illness and what transpired at SCOAN was not a publicity stunt.
TB Joshua didn’t touch my mum – Jim Iyke
My ordeal at Synagogue church not publicity stunt – Jim Iyke
According to the 46-year-old, a senator friend suggested he should take his mum to the Synagogue church after trying orthodox medical treatment.
“At some point, an offer was made to us to take her to the synagogue by a senator friend of mine. I refused but after much pressure from my family, I said okay, I want to go if they will save her, I will go,” he said.
He, however, added that TB Joshua did not touch his mum.
“I have said it time and again that if what I have said is not true, let somebody come and prove that he gave me money. My mum was in a coma in the hospital. What disappointed me was the fact that TB Joshua didn’t touch her, he didn’t even see her eye to eye. I thought my career had ended after that day,” he said.
Jim’s mother died on April 1, 2014.
Joshua died on June 5, 2021.
