Once again, the Nigerian film industry has been thrown
into mourning, following the death of another actor, Olurotimi Ayinde, a.k.a
Abu Olododo, in Abeookuta, capital of Ogun State, on Sunday night.
The news of Ayinde’s passage came a few hours after the
death of seasoned actor, poet and journalist, Adebayo Faleti, was announced.
A friend and colleague of Ayinde, Waheed Ijaduade,
brought his departure to the attention of the public in a statement posted on
Facebook on Monday.
Later, Ijaduade, in a telephone interview , described Ayinde’s death as sudden. Claiming that he had a brief
phone conversation with the deceased on Sunday night, he said, “We chatted for
a while on that night. He even asked me about the outcome of a summit that I
attended in Lagos.
We talked about other things and we agreed to meet on Monday
or Tuesday before I went to bed. I went
to his residence to see him the following day (Monday) as agreed only to learn
that he was dead.”
Possibly Ayinde’s relatives or co-tenants, Ijaduade
implied in his account, had decided to open the door of his room when he failed
to show up in the morning and found him in a sitting position and lifeless.
It was also gathered that Ayinde did not
complain of ill-health before he died. “He never told me that he was sick. He
appeared to be quite healthy when I spoke with him on the phone. His death
remains a mystery to me,” Ijaduade said.
The actor has since been buried according to Muslim
rites.
He was aged 51 and married with four children.
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