Veteran actor, Olumide Bakare is dead. Confirming the sad
incident,
former president of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts
Practitioners, NANTAP, Mufu Onifade said that he passed on early
Saturday.
“He
had a successful surgery and after the surgery, he talked to people and told
them he was fine. But two hours later, he passed on. It is very painful because
I had actually been wishing him a quick recovery.
“Olumide
Bakare is someone who was a hundred percent committed to the theatre
profession. He started on stage and then from there, went on TV, did radio and
then film which was where he settled. Of course he became much more popular for
his stint of TV in Oluwa Langbe Lodge. That was what brought him to
limelight. You can’t fault him as a professional. He is someone who was very
discipline. I see him as the last of the second generation of actors in
Nigeria,” Onifade said.
Earlier
in the year, the veteran was rushed to University College Hospital, UCH in
Ibadan, Oyo State after suffering from cardiac arrest. He reached out to well
meaning Nigerians for financial help to help him deal with this ailment.
Narrating
his ordeal then, the late actor said that it started since 2013 but it wasn’t
so bad. Although he had treated it but the ailment resurfaced and he was rushed
to the emergency unit of UCH, Ibadan where he was admitted.
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