Mikel Obi’s dad, Pa Michael, says he hasn’t heard from the Super Eagles skipper in five years.
Pa Michael was recently kidnapped and released while his son was at the World Cup in Russia.
While the 31-year-old Tianjin TEDA star publicly expressed that he underwent shock and trauma during the kidnap, his father, however, is quite surprised.
According to the 74-year-old, his relationship with his son has collapsed.
“It is an issue, but we don’t know what to do. It’s over five years now without a phone call from him to me. But he communicates with his mother,” Pa Michael was quoted by Daily Trust.
“There is nothing I have not done to fix it. God has told me that I should not feel hurt. When we start to talk about it, I say, ‘Well, as long as I see him on TV, doing great, no problem’.”
Pa Michael claims Mikel rarely visits and he is yet to meet his kids.
“During the just-concluded World Cup, one or two days to one of their matches, we spoke. He called his mum, and she told me that Nchekwube (Mikel) was on the phone and I told him that God will see him through. I prayed for him. That is it.
“When he first joined Chelsea, my people in Anambra were very happy that God has blessed their son, and when he came to Abuja, they prepared very well with the hope that he will come to our hometown. They even made some magazines. It was grand. But he didn’t come. It was a shameful thing to me, as a father. He once told his brother that sometimes he picks his phone to call me, but something tells him not to.
“Sometime last year, he was to bring them so that I could name them, he said he would. But he didn’t. His other colleagues frequent home, so I don’t understand. “
