Afolayan Reveals Shocking Health Status Of Sadiq Daba While Acting Citation

Kunle Afolayan & Sadiq Daba

Popular Nigerian filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, has said that late actor Sadiq Daba had an oxygen machine with him while on the set of his 2020 film, Citation.

The producer disclosed this while speaking on an Arise TV show on Friday night.

Daba passed away on Wednesday at the Lagos state university teaching hospital (LASUTH) after a long and excruciating battle with leukemia and prostate cancer.

“I think God gave him those last few years for him to reconnect with people and for people to reconnect with him. And so he can be documented properly. Before I found him, he wasn’t doing anything,” Afolayan said.

“When we were prepping for the film, his name came to mind. I went online, looked for him, and saw an interview he did two years ago (2012). I reached out to the journalist who wrote the article and she gave me his number.

Sadiq Daba

“After that, he featured in a few other films. God brought him back after we did October but I can tell that, even when we were shooting October 1, he was a struggle. Uncle S is fragile. Sometimes he’d be sick and we had to wait.

“But when we were doing ‘Citation’, if you check our videos, he had his oxygen machine under the table. When I was casting him, a lot of people had reservations like, ‘Look, Uncle S is not fit, what if he’s not able to finish?’

“I said, ‘I can’t go wrong. If this is the last film he’d to do, I’ll do it.’ We brought him, when he is uncomfortable, I tell him let’s take time out. In all the clips where he’s dancing, I played the songs to put him in good mood.”

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