{"id":38599,"date":"2024-07-12T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38599"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:05:02","slug":"yul-edochie-denies-friendship-with-alleged-kidnap-gang-ringleader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/12\/yul-edochie-denies-friendship-with-alleged-kidnap-gang-ringleader\/","title":{"rendered":"Yul Edochie Denies Friendship with Alleged Kidnap Gang Ringleader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Controversial actor and preacher Yul Edochie has clarified his connection to movie producer Henry Odenigbo amidst reports linking Odenigbo to a criminal kidnapping gang. The allegations arose after photos of Odenigbo were shared by filmmaker Stanley Nwoko, suggesting his involvement in criminal activities and subsequent death in a police shootout in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to these reports on Instagram, Edochie denied any close association with Odenigbo, emphasizing that their interaction was limited to a professional setting. He explained that they met on the set of a movie in June, where Odenigbo introduced himself as part of Ason-Rich Movie Production and expressed admiration for Edochie&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I only saw this guy once when I shot a movie for him a few weeks ago,&#8221; Edochie clarified. &#8220;He came to me, introduced himself as Ason-Rich Productions, and said his name was Henry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edochie further detailed that after filming concluded, Odenigbo requested a photo together, which Edochie agreed to as a courtesy. This encounter, he stressed, was the extent of their interaction, dispelling rumors of any personal friendship or ongoing association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the first time I saw him, and I never saw him again,&#8221; Edochie affirmed. He expressed dismay over the circulation of their photo together, clarifying that he knew Odenigbo solely in his capacity as a producer on a single movie project.<\/p>\n<p>As the story gained traction on social media, Edochie sought to set the record straight, underscoring that his relationship with Odenigbo was purely professional and limited to their brief collaboration on a film set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Controversial actor and preacher Yul Edochie has clarified his connection to movie producer Henry Odenigbo amidst reports linking Odenigbo to a criminal kidnapping gang. The allegations arose after photos of Odenigbo were shared by filmmaker Stanley Nwoko, suggesting his involvement in criminal activities and subsequent death in a police shootout in Lagos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":38600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38601,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38599\/revisions\/38601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}