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 to
PREMIUM TIMES 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 told PREMIUM
TIMES 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.