Three years after he lost his wife, late iconic singer Christy Essien 
Igbokwe, Chief Edwin Igbokwe secretly married Oluchi Phillips. What many
 don't know about his new wife is that she's an actress who has 
featured in the highly watched soap opera, Tinsel, and aparingly in 
other movies.
The couple knew each other for many years and were good friends, so it 
was only natural that he would turn to her when he needed a partner to 
spend the rest of his life with. Mr Igbokwe explains;
"It was a family thing. I knew her father before the war. She 
is 42 years old. I also knew her mother. Even when my mother died many 
years ago, they came to pay condolence visit all the way from their 
place. You know, when people who are close to you are coming from a far 
place. They come with yam, palm oil and other things. They did that and 
that was when the mother introduced her to me as her daughter and I, as 
her son. It was mummy (late Christy Essien) that received them in Awka. 
So mummy knew her but there was nothing then. Let me tell you, you know 
mummy was spiritual. It wasn't me who invited her. What would I be 
proving if it was me who invited her? When mummy passed on, she came to 
Niteshift and other places where we met again.