Cancelled radio interview – Elikem responds

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Zim Now Writer

Pokelo Nare’s ex-husband, Elikem Kurmodzie, has turned to social media to vent his frustration at the cancellation of his interview on StarFM.

The fashion designer from Ghana was scheduled for an interview with DJ Ollah on his After Drive show at 7pm on Wednesday, but alleges he received a call from the host and a top manager at the station informing him the interview had been cancelled. No reason was given, he said. Elikem, who was once married to Pokelo, is in the country for the Christmas holidays and he says he is also here to see his son with the socialiate.

“I’m an entertainer and interviews is what we do to talk about ourselves and what we are doing and where we are. I’m very oblivious to what is going on here, I don’t know why my interview was stopped and who is afraid of me going on radio to say what. “I’m totally dumbfounded, I’m shocked…to be honest I’m quite upset. I was going to talk about myself and not about Zimbabwe,” he said in a post on Facebook.

Elikem married his former Big Brother Africa housemate, Nare, in 2015, but they divorced in 2007 after having been blessed with a baby boy, Tristan. “I’m not too sure, but I got a call from Ollah himself and another manager guy talking about the show being cancelled. The manager guy said to me he got a phone call from the top that we cannot go ahead with the show, he apologised greatly, and so I apologise to you as well.

"I’m totally dumbfounded, I’m shocked, I don’t know what to say,” he told his Facebook followers.

Announcing his arrival in Harare earlier, Kurmodzie took to Instagram and told fans, “If you are looking for me this Christmas, you can find me in Zim doing the most with my son.”

While some circles alleged Elikem had married Pokelo for her wealth, he responded by saying it was out of pure love that they had tied the knot in the first place. “Sometimes people would say Elikem is a gold digger and he is only there for the money, and sometimes it hit me a little bit. That is why I wanted to come to Ghana on my ground, so we work from the bottom up. I wasn’t so much insecure, it was more of wanting to do my own thing,” he said.