Pete Edochie is one of many households names in the Nollywood movie industry having acted in over 300 movies since he made his debut appearance.
Pete Edochie became prominent in the movie industry when he played the role of Okonkwo in the movie adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s popular novel, Things Fall Apart in the 1980s.
Before rising to fame in the movie industry, he worked as a broadcaster and rose to the post of director before entering acting full time.
Pete Edochie as from playing the role of a vicious chief in most of his movies is also known for his dexterity in the use of proverbs and witty statements.
Today, Pete Edochie turns 74 and we will be sharing with you, 25 of his famous proverbs in movies.
1. No African girl will choose six-packs over six cars. So my sons stop the gym and work hard”.P
2. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there’s no river”.B
3. Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes”.
4. The death of a lion cannot be announced by a goat”.
5. When one’s goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour’s soup get suspicious”.
6. A farmer who grows corn by the road and a man who has a beautiful woman have the same problem.
7. The house that pounds yam noisily thinks the silent ones don’t eat.
8. What an elder will see sitting down, a child will never see it even while standing.
9. A man who counts his money after withdrawing from the ATM has trust issues.
10. When a goat laughs upon hearing that the lion is around, one needs to find out what kind of grass it has been eating.
11. The plantain that refuses to ripen because it doesn’t want to be fried will be used for plantain chips.
12. Having a female as a best friend is like having chickens for a pet you will eat it someday.
13. Girls are like mangoes, once you are waiting for them to ripe, others are busy eating them with salt.
14. Whoever presents his own head to break coconut would not be able to partake in the eating process.
15. Hmm… The cow in a hurry to go to America will come back as corned beef 19. When a girl has beauty without brains the private part suffers the most.
16. The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction between them, they will still love and live together
17. A man who hangs around a beautiful girl without saying a word ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding.
18. Drinking garri doesn’t mean you’re poor but allowing it to swell before drinking is poverty.
19. If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful.
20. Never let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent & kick them out.
Happy Cheers Chief Pete Edochie 🎊🎉
