Nigerian relationship adviser and content creator, Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO, has criticised social media users who called for her death following the passing of Nollywood actor Alex Ekubo. 

New Telegraph had earlier reported that Alex Ekubo died on Monday, May 11, from a severe metastatic liver cancer at the age of 40.

Following his demise, several people commented on Okoro’s Instagram page, saying that God ought to have killed her instead.

Reacting to the comment, Okoro criticised the posts and questioned what she called “Selective empathy” in an Instagram video sighted by New Telegraph.

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Given that many of the same users had posted disparaging remarks while the person was still living, she expressed amazement at the speed at which public sympathy emerged following a death.

In response to allegations that Ekubo’s family had concealed his illness, Okoro said that pictures of him taken during his illness would have been ridiculed.

She said, “How do you people sympathise with the de@d but b#lly the living? Each time someone passes away and I see how people suddenly become sympathetic, I’m always surprised.

“If you read the comments people make when the person is alive, you’ll be shocked. Some people were even saying things like ‘God should take Blessing CEO and give us Alexx Ekubo.’ God will punish u all!

“And for those saying his family kept everything off social media, if his pictures had been posted while he was sick, the same people would still have mocked him and said all sorts of things.”

The backlash against Okoro followed an incident in March in which she falsely claimed to have stage 4 cancer and alleged possession of another person’s medical report.