Veteran actor Adedeji Aderemi, who’s common as Olofaina, has handed away. The stage and movie actor and producer died on Thursday on the age of 73.
His junior colleague, Saidi Balogun, and later actress Foluke Daramola, introduced his demise via their social media handles. Balogun wrote: “Good evening legend, Chief Deji Akinremi (Olofaina) RIP.” Daramola responded in an Instagram put up, saying she takes consolation in the truth that Olofaina was residing a very good life, was blissful and comparatively fulfilled. “One other skilled actor has disappeared.
I take consolation in the truth that you lived a very good life and that you just have been a contented man and that you just have been comparatively fulfilled whilst you have been with us. Most significantly, you have been one of many individuals I celebrated a number of instances. RIP baba Olofaina,” she wrote.
Till his demise he bore the normal title Sobaloju van Ede Land. The late actor, who is understood for producing a variety of tv productions together with Ade Oba, Lakaaye and Odetedo, was born into the household of the late Chief AbdulSalam Aderemi and the late Mrs. Aisha Aderemi of Jagun-Olukosi compound, Ede within the state Osun on Might 15, 1950, in the course of the reign of the late Oba John Adetoyese Laoye, then Timi van Ede.
He began his performing profession on stage and in 1972, main the Olofaina Theater Troupe with the likes of Gbolagade Akinpelu and the late Oyetunji of Esinnla. The final time Olofaina, who featured within the 1989 dwelling video of the late Alade Aromire, titled Ekun, was within the information was in June 2021 when he tried to intervene within the case between comic Damilola Adekoya aka princess, and the now convicted, Omiyinka Olarenwaju aka Baba Ijesha. The funeral preparations for the veteran actor shall be as introduced by the household.
