Veteran Actor, Babatunde Omidina popularly known as “Baba Suwe” is dead.

A family source confirmed the incident to newsmen in an interview.

Also, the president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN, Mr. Bolaji Amusan also known as Mr. Latin, said details of his death are still sketchy but added that he has spoken to the daughter of the deceased, Adesola Omidina, who confirmed that the veteran thespian’s passage.

Omidina was born on August 22, 1958, in Inabere Street in Lagos Island where he grew up but hails from Ikorodu local government area of Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.

He had his primary education at Jamaitul Islamial Primary School in Lagos and Children Boarding School, Osogbo before he proceeded to Adekanbi Commercial High School in Mile 12, Lagos state but obtained the West African School Certificate from Ifeoluwa Grammar School in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, southwestern Nigeria.

Omidina began acting in 1971 but came into the limelight after he featured in a movie titled, Omolasan, a film produced by Obalende.

He became more popular after he featured in Iru Esin, produced by Olaiya Igwe in 1997.

In 2011, he was accused of cocaine trafficking by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, an allegation that was described as false and defamatory by the ruling of the Lagos High Court of law.

His solicitor was the late Bamidele Aturu, a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist

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