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Few days after she was released from the kidnappers den, Nollywood actress and Special Assistant on Public Affairs to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Nkiru Sylvanus got married secretly, yemojanews.com can exclusively revealed.
The man who swept the actress of her feet is the media spokesman of Vice President Namadi Sambo, Mallam Umar Sani. Our sources revealed that the wedding which held two weeks ago was given a media blackout and attended by handful of family members.
We gathered that the wedding was made hush-hush because of the media attention that greeted the kidnap of the actress and because the VP’s media man has a wife already which will make Nkiru his second wife.
Nkiru Sylvanus was kidnapped by gunmen in Owerri on Saturday, December 15, 2012 and a ransom of 100 million naira wa demanded in exchange for her release.
The actress was released about a week after, though there were unconfirmed reports that a ransom was paid.
One of the friends to the Vice President’sSpokesman confirmed the marriage and told yemojanews.com that, “it is not for public knowledge”.
We learnt Nkiru and Umar Sani have been dating for a while and it was Sani, who got the political appointment for the actress in Imo State.
“Umar Sani and Rochas Okorocha are close friends. Umar facilitated Nkiru’s appointment in Imo State. You know Nkiru is from Abia State and not Imo”, our source declared.
The source further told us that it was Umar Sani that paid ransom of several millions of naira before the kidnappers released the actress.