Actor IK Ogbonna finally breaks silence on Alex Ekubo’s death

Nollywood histrion and director, Ikechukwu Mitchel Ogbonna, popularly known arsenic IK Ogbonna, has yet breached his soundlessness connected the decease of his adjacent person and chap actor, Alex Ekubo.

Recall that Alex Ekubo died connected May 12, 2026, aft spending hours connected beingness support.

His household disclosed that helium passed distant astatine Evercare Hospital successful Lagos owed to complications arising from precocious metastatic kidney cancer.

Throughout Ekubo’s burial rites and ceremonial proceedings, IK Ogbonna remained silent, with galore interpreting his soundlessness arsenic a idiosyncratic mode of grieving the achy loss.

However, on Tuesday, July 15, 2026, the histrion broke his silence, paying an affectional tribute to his precocious person successful a station shared connected his Instagram page.

“On May 11th, I mislaid my champion person and brother, Alexx. Nothing prepares you for a nonaccomplishment similar that,” helium stated.

Ogbonna said the acquisition had wholly changed his position connected death, noting that radical often spot ambulances oregon perceive quality of decease without afloat grasping the symptom until it affects idiosyncratic adjacent to them.

“You ne'er genuinely recognize the value of decease until it’s your ain idiosyncratic wrong that vehicle. Until the telephone stops ringing forever. Until the seat beside you remains empty. Until the conversations you thought you had clip to decorativeness sudde...