Joke Silva recounts Onyeka Onwenu's last moments

Veteran Nollywood actress Joke Silva has disclosed her final moments with the late musician Onyeka Onwenu.

Rocket Parrot News reports that the ace vocalist Onyeka Onwenu died in July 2024 after collapsing during Emzor Pharmaceuticals CEO Stella Okolie's 80th birthday party.

On August 30, she was buried at the Ebony Vaults in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

During her most recent interview with media personality WithChude, Joke Silva, who witnessed the last moments of the Elegant Stallion as she was fondly called during her musical days, stated that Onwenu died roughly two hours after collapsing, not immediately.

She said: “We were at the party together at the same table. At some point when she was going around the room during her performance, she came to me and pulled me up, and we had a bit of a twirl.

“She was singing ‘One Love’ and close to the end of the song, we both went back to our seats. And it was when I looked across that I heard Shola Momoh saying ‘She’s not well, she slumped on her chair’. But then she was just unconscious. She had a pulse.

“CPR was performed while she was laid down on the floor. We tried to revive her. We asked for doctors in the house to come and look at her and they did. Later on, I went to the hospital. And she was there for about one and a half hours before she finally passed.”