Veteran Nollywood actor Pete Edochie has dismissed fresh reports of his alleged death, describing the claims as false and recurring.
The 78-year-old reacted after rumours circulated online that he had been rushed to the hospital and later died, with claims that his son, Uche Edochie, had confirmed the news on social media.
Speaking in a telephone interview with Vanguard, the veteran actor dismissed the reports as false and assured the public that he is healthy and well.
“I’m alive and will die when my maker calls me home.”
“I have been killed about seven times. There was a time they said I travelled abroad and died there. At other times, they said that the plane I boarded from Enugu to Ethiopia suddenly crashed and I didn’t survive. There was also a day, my wife woke up to prepare for church service, when her telephone rang and the caller said he heard that I passed away this morning. Last year, somebody from Ghana alleged that Pete Edochie was already in the grave.
“However, there was something late Nnamdi Azikwe thought me when I interviewed him. He said that anybody who’s wishing you death will die before you. All those people that wished Zik death died before him. That was what I learnt from Zik. On the 7th of March, I will be 79. My father died at 96, so we have longevity in my family,” Pete Edoche said.