2FACE Idibia is doing very well, recovering fast and happy to be alive. Contrary to widespread speculations concerning his health, and erroneous media reports he was battling for his life, the singer, speaking from his hospital bed on Monday October 8, assured his fans and well-wishers he is well and his health is not in anyway deteriorating. In the company of his publicist Ayeni Adekunle, his manager Joice Ize-Iyamu, a group of cameramen and his security guards, the iconic singer who was shot by armed bandits on Thursday October 4 thanked God for sparing his life, even as he chided his attackers for getting so desperate as to attempt to take another man’s life. ‘I thank God. ‘Cos I know it’s not luck. The bullet could have hit me somewhere more dangerous. So I really thank God, and I’m really trying to understand what he’s trying to tell me with this incident.’ he said. Reminiscing on the sad incident, he explained ‘we didn’t know it was robbers. We even thought it was a car trying to ram into us. It was not until I saw the gun, and heard the shot that I realised what they wanted. So I told my guy, let’s find our way o… these guys mean business. I didn’t even know the bullet hit me. It was while we were running, that my left leg started failing me, that I realised what had happened.’ ‘It’s really sad; that people would allow frustration lead them into doing such things. There are people on the road, selling stuff, trying so hard to make it. Nothing comes easy in life; you’ve just got to keep trying. I pray they’ll convert all the energy they use to organise those attacks into doing positive things that’ll help their lives’. Meanwhile the recuperating singer will not be relocating from Nigeria or his FESTAC residence anytime soon. ‘As far as I’m comfortable where I am, I’ve got no hassles. Whatever will be will be. I might be in the US and be hit by a stray bullet. Anything good or evil can happen to you anywhere’, he said philosophically. I have my business here so I’m not planning to relocate. I’ll travel anytime I have to, and come back home. There’s no place like home. But I want my people to be more positive and honest. Violence does no one no good’. Clean shaven and looking much rested, the star singer is not allowing all the medications and get-well cards around him weigh him down. ‘You can see I’m listening go a Russel Simmon CD lecture. I’m using my time here positively, and it’s an opportunity for me to reflect on my business, as well as think of new materials for my music’, he said with a smile playing on his lips. Corroborating him, his manager Joice Ize-iyamu believes ‘this will definitely give inspiration for new and great materials. It’s an experience well all never forget’. Idibia is presently been hospitalised in a private clinic in Lagos. He was moved from Cedar group hospital in FESTAC on Friday when the crowd of well-wishers became uncontrollable, making it a Herculean task for hospital security and doctors treating him to manage the situation. And his manager had assured that ‘he will not be flown abroad for further treatment. His condition is very stable, so there’s no reason for that. He just needs time for the pellets to expel, and for him to recuperate fully.’ A date has, however, not been fixed for his discharge. But his friends Ifeanyi Orji who was attacked with him was discharged from Cedar Group hospitals on Friday October 6th. ‘I really thank everyone for their concern’, says 2face who enjoyed a similar display of overwhelming support when he was attacked and injured by suspected robbers in 2005. ‘I thank everybody, the media, my family, all my fellow artistes, my friends, my manager, the Kennis music family and the good Samaritans that helped carry us with their van when we were bleeding on the road after the attack last Thursday’. Source: ayenithegreat.wordpress