How Fuji Star, Sunny T Died

Fresh facts emerged on Tuesday regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of Fuji act, Sunny T Adesokan.

Mrs. Julie Adur, sister to the late artiste who hailed from Bayelsa State, said he told her that he fainted along Agege Motor Road on Saturday while going out.

Adur, who stated that she would always treasure the comforting talks and presence of her late brother, whose real name she gave as Sunday Tua, confirmed that the late singer performed on Friday at a function in Epe area of Lagos State before his demise on Sunday morning after 4am.

She said, “He came home on Saturday and told me that he fainted while coming home but was revived by some Samaritans. He said we should pray that those after his life and success would not triumph. He sat on one of the chairs singing in the room. I cannot forget that moment. We were together in the room. praying. Sunny was even the one who told me that it was 12 am, meaning it was July 1. He refused to sleep in the bedroom and asked me to spread a bedsheet for him on the rug. When he woke up around 4am on Sunday, July 1, he woke me up to boil water for him to bathe.”

Adur further narrated to our correspondent on Tuesday that Sunny T was about to go into the bathroom when he slumped when his breathing became heavy.It was then I she shouted for help.

“We rushed him to the Lagos State Teaching Hospital but it was too late.”

 

He said, ‘‘I knew him in 1999 at Sajo Nigeria Limited owned by Jolaosho Samod where he and some Fuji artistes used to rent musical instruments. I was an engineer there.’’

A visitor to Coker Street in Mushin area of Lagos State where the deceased lived would feel the sober mood which pervaded the area and its environs.

The singer, who had the appellation Omo Nna to Nko Fuji (A non-Yoruba native who sings Fuji), did not however rake in mega bucks from music. The modest setting in his two rooms where a television set and DVD player sat on a shelf were enough proof to his low musical profile.

Sunny T Adesokan.from Bayelsa State,

(A non-Yoruba native who sings Fuji)

R.I.P