The Father of Nigerian footballer, Mikel Obi, has revealed that he has not spoken to his son in five years and that he doesn’t know how to fix the relationship.
Pa Obi speaking in an interview with the Daily Trust stated that he had tried on several occasions to fix the relationship but to no avail.
Mikel’s father has now been kidnapped on two occasions with the perpetrators believing that he is privy to his son’s money.
He stated in the interview that he is sure that’s why the kidnappers kept coming for him.
He said: “Isn’t that why kidnappers are targeting me? Because they think the money he makes, he ships it to me to make investments,”
“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.
“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’.
“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’s 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 his children so that I could name them, he said he would. But he didn’t. His other colleagues frequent home, so I don’t understand.”