Relationship expert Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO, has criticised social media users who called for her death following the passing of actor Alex Ekubo.
Ekubo died on Monday after battling
advanced metastatic kidney cancer.
After the news broke, several users
posted comments on Okoro’s Instagram page stating that God should have taken
her life instead.
In a video shared on Instagram, Okoro
condemned the posts and questioned what she described as selective empathy.
She said she was surprised at how
quickly public sympathy appeared after a death, noting that many of the same
users had made hostile comments when the person was alive.
Okoro also addressed claims that Ekubo’s
family had kept his illness private, stating that if images of him had been
shared while he was sick, they would have been met with mockery.
She said, “How do you people sympathize
with the de@d but b#lly the living? Each time someone passes away and I see how
people become suddenly sympathetic, I’m always surprised. If you read the
comments people make when the person is alive, you’ll be shocked. Some people
were even saying things like ‘God should take Blessing CEO and give us Alexx
Ekubo.’ God will punish u all!
“And for those saying his family kept
everything off social media, if his pictures had been posted while he was sick,
the same people would still have mocked him and said all sorts of things.”
The backlash against Okoro followed an
incident in March in which she falsely claimed to have stage 4 cancer and
alleged possession of another person’s medical report.
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