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Ure Okezie,
who was a banker for more than a decade, is an interesting personality. This
diva, ex-pastor, celebrity, ex-wife of Soul-E, a musician, whose marriage
crashed after a few years, is a great beauty. In this interview with Adaeze
Amos of National Mirror, she reveals why she stopped being a pastor and how
she regained her composure when her marriage crashed.
Excerpts:
You
were a pastor, why did you step out from pastoral work?
Most of last year, I was out of the country and I handed the
ministry over to someone. You know how it is when you are not the one there,
they had some challenges and they couldn’t continue. I still go to church every
Sunday. I have gone back to my former church which is Household of God Church,
owned by Pastor Chris Okotie.
Is
that why people are insinuating that you have an intimate relationship with
Pastor Chris Okotie; is it true?
Well, I think that both of us (Pastor Chris and
myself) are two people who God’s hand is upon. So, in our lives, only the
counsel of God will stand. I’m in Household to worship. I have been a
householder for years. Pastor Chris is a man of God that I hold in high
esteem and I respect him a lot.
What
do you do when you are heartbroken?
Why should people be heartbroken? Is it that you are in a
relationship and the person walks out or when a person is not getting enough
attention from the person she loves? Well, you are bound to feel bad for a
while. I don’t think it is right to desire to be with someone who doesn’t want
to be with you. It doesn’t even make sense to begin to cry over someone. There
are over a billion people on earth and then you choose one person and begin to
cry over the person, it doesn’t make sense.
Haven’t
you been heartbroken before?
I have but I didn’t get heartbroken for long because I’m a
wonderful person, I’m a loving person, I’m fun to be with and anyone who has me
is blessed. That is the way I look at it. Someone should know your value and if
the person doesn’t know, it is his loss. Women should begin to value themselves
and you should be a woman that a man would need, not a woman that needs a man.
That doesn’t mean I can’t fall in love and I’m like, ‘oh my God I would like to
be with this person’. I’m a very open person; if I like you, I would tell you I
like you and the whole world would know I like you. I’m not someone who hides
my feelings. But if you didn’t feel the same way, before you know what is going
on, I’m done with you.
When
your marriage with Soul-E crashed, all sorts of things were written about you
and…
I didn’t even let that bother me (cuts in). Yes, if you meet
a million people, they would have a million opinions about you. And those
opinions have nothing to do with who you are. From my early childhood, I grew
not to bother about what people think of me because time would eventually
unfold who you truly are
SHALLOW…What an interview! What an
advice! Hey, you can’t give what you don’t even have in the first place…Imagine
a statement like this – I was out of the country and I handed the
ministry over to someone – And so, Madam, the ministry died? Why won’t it
die…It would always die when people chose to call themselves into God’s
ministry and not God calling them into His ministry…No wonder people always say
– BEAUTY AND BRAIN – Very Very UNCOMMON…SMH
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