Why Paw Paw And I Separated – Aki Reveals

The petite duo, Osita Iheme(Paw Paw) and Chinedu Ikedieze(Aki) took the film industry by surprise years back when they were cast in the movie Aki na Ukwa. Not many knows that they are no longer as cordial as before.

Although many thought they were related in one way or the other; maybe because they lived together, have the same body size, and so on. However,  they soon grew apart,even stopped living together. This  was more noticeable after Aki got married.
Chinedu in an interview with Nigerian Tribune, explained why: Read excerpts from the interview below
Back into acting, it seems you did not discover yourself until Paw Paw joined you in the industry?
It wasn’t like that. I started acting in 1998 while I was still an undergraduate and I have done some major jobs between 1999 and 2000, especially as supporting lead role. In fact, I was almost there before Paw Paw surfaced; he started acting in 2001, but he was not famous. God miraculously picked the two of us and featured us in a movie which gave us a break among others of such stature as ours.
I believe we were not the only ones with small stature. It was a unique combination which opened the people’s eyes as well as gave the industry a new face. Remember, I did not start acting with the comic aspect. Back in my secondary school days, my friends knew that I was a funny person. Everything that happened was for a reason. I guess it was time for people to know the other side of me, which also gladdened my heart. I would say that our coming together stirred the comic thing.
Do you sometimes think you guys might not have been famous if you had not come together?
I don’t see it that way. As I said earlier, it was a divine connection. God has a purpose for bringing us together and every man has his time and season. Despite our small stature, which many people see as a disadvantage, fame still located us. The coming together of Aki and Paw Paw was a prestige to us and a plus to the industry because it was a usual way of shooting movies before we were discovered, especially witchcraft or any other movie. The whole thing changed when we came on board. We brought stories that happened to us personally to the screen and before we knew it, the combination became hot cake in the market.
Could you recall you guys’ meeting point?
It was easy for me to shuttle between school and locations in Enugu back then, but Paw Paw usually came from Aba. I had been in the industry before him and, according to him, he had been longing to meet me and we eventually met in 2001 at a location.
News had it that you asked Paw Paw to vacate the apartment both of you once leaved in as a bachelor when you got married
“There was no clash between us. Then, the owner of the property wanted to use it, so we both had to vacate the apartment. The truth must be told, we cannot live together forever. We are adults and someday we would get married. We are not same twins, I am from Abia and he is from Imo. It’s just that we are good friends. It is not bad we go our separate ways, though; we are not far from each other.”