Top Yoruba actor, Abu Olododo is dead

Nollywood Yoruba actor, Olurotimi Isaiah Ayinde popularly known as Abu Olododo has died after a brief illness.

The actor gave up the ghost hours ago in his hometown in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He reportedly died after a brief illness in the early hours of the morning.

Ayinde’s death comes barely 48-hours after veteran actor and poet Adebayo Faleti died in Ibadan over the weekend.

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 with our correspondent, 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.”

Abu Olododo

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.

 Our correspondent 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.

 May his soul rest in perfect peace.