A popular
Nollywood actor, Samuel Adesanya, popularly called Pastor Ajidara, is dead.
Mr. Ajidara,
62, died of kidney failure in the early hours of Sunday.
His wife,
Atinuke Adesanya, who confirmed the death, said the actor died at Mercy
Hospital, Onikolobo, Abeokuta, where he was receiving dialysis treatment.
Mr.
Adesanya’s family had two days ago called for financial support of N12million
from the public, following his doctor’s recommendation that he would need a
kidney transplant to survive.
Ironically,
Mr. Adesanya was owed about N4 million by the Ogun State government as a
retiree of Ogun State Judiciary. He retired from the service on July 2, 2015
but was yet to get his retirement benefit till he died.
Mrs.
Adesanya said that her husband’s illness started shortly after an auto crash in
2012.
Until his
death, Mr. Adesanya was the Governor of Ogun State Chapter of Theatre Art and
Movie Producers Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN.
Sympathisers
on Sunday morning besieged the Abeokuta home of Mr. Adesanya to commiserate
with his family while arrangements were ongoing to deposit his corpse in the
morgue, in preparation for final burial.
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