Nigerian veteran broadcaster, poet, journalist, writer and actor, Adebayo Faleti, is dead.
Faleti who is known by many for his role in Saworoide, and Afonja movies was confirmed dead on Sunday at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
His son, Adeniyi, told punch correspondent that he was helping his father with his bath when he died.
According to him, his father observed the early morning devotion with his family members when he woke up and soon after, told them that he prayed to God to send someone else to continue his mission as he was tired and longing for home.
After the morning devotion, I helped him to the bathroom as I normally do, when he said he wanted God to send someone else to come and complete his work because he had done all he could do. He also said that he wanted to go home. Suddenly, I noticed that he was not breathing again.
The late broadcaster published a dictionary containing the official usage of Yoruba names.
He was a Yoruba translator, TV exponent and a pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television, WNTV, Ibadan.
He was also responsible for translating Nigeria’s National Anthem from English to Yoruba.
He died at the age of 86.
