Veteran actor and broadcaster, Sadiq Daba is dead.
He died on Wednesday after a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer.
In a report by PUNCH, Joe Odumakin, a close friend of the actor, disclosed that Daba’s wife confirmed the passing of the veteran actor.
“His wife just called me now and we spoke,” Odumakin told PUNCH. “She said that she was at the morgue. I asked what happened and she told me that about a week ago, he had been ill but he had been home and that he went to the hospital late afternoon today.
“She explained that he had not been eating much and that as soon as they got to the hospital, they started conducting different tests on him including COVID-19. They put him on oxygen but he died around 8:30 pm.”
The ‘Cock Crow at Dawn’ actor breathed his last at the Lagos state university teaching hospital, Ikeja.
His last movie appearance was in Kunle Afolayan’s movie, Citation, which was released in October 2020
In 2015, he won the ‘Best Actor’ category at the African Movie Academy Award (AMAA) for his role as Inspector Waziri in October 1, released in 2014.
