Ayo Mogaji of Feyikogbon reportedly down with kidney failure

Popular actor, Chief Sunday Akinola (popularly known as Ayo Mogaji of Feyikigbon) is in need of N30 million to travel abroad due to kidney failure which he was said to have been battling with in the past five years.

He is also suffering from memory loss, apparently as a result of his ailments, as he tearfully said he could not remember anything again.

The 77-year-old hit the limelight with his popular weekly sitcom, the Feyikogbon series, which regularly featured on NTA Channel 7, Lagos, for over 13 years.

However, fate and fortune did not smile on him as the man, in an interview conducted in 2014, disclosed that the series only made him popular without putting money in his pocket.

Born on September 19, 1942, the Yewa, Ogun State-born actor has also be battling with hypertension, as he lamented that financial help was not forthcoming..

He said he sold almost everything he had, except the house which he built in 1985, to take care of his health, after he was diagnosed with kidney failure, some few years ago.

In an interview in 2014 after he became hypertensive, he said his deteriorating health had stopped him from featuring in major theatre projects, even as he expresses the wish to still play an active role in the Yoruba movie industry.

“I am old but still active and alive. I have been sick for over five years, battling with hypertension and you know, a hypertensive patient needs to relax and do away with stress,” he had said.

Akinola was also a musician and former soldier who was drafted to the Army shortly before the Nigerian Civil War, and fought alongside the like of the late Fuji music icon, Chief Sikiru Ayinde Balogun (popularly called Barrister).