Veteran actor, Adedeji Aderemi, who is popular as Olofaina, has passed on. Aged 73, the stage and screen actor and producer reportedly died on Thursday.
His junior colleague, Saidi Balogun, and later, actress Foluke Daramola, announced his passing on their social media handles. Balogun wrote: “Goodnight legend, Chief Deji Akinremi (Olofaina) RIP.” Reacting in an Instagram post, Daramola said she takes solace in the fact that Olofaina lived a good life and was happy and was relatively fulfilled. “Another veteran actor has gone.
I take solace in the fact that u lived a good life and u were a happy man and was relatively fulfilled when you were with us. Most importantly you were one of the people I celebrated several times. RIP baba Olofaina,” she wrote.
A titled chief, until death, he held the traditional title of Sobaloju of Ede Land, the late actor, who is known for producing a couple of television productions including, Ade Oba, Lakaaye and Odetedo, was born into the family of the late Chief AbdulSalam Aderemi and the late Madam Aisha Aderemi of Jagun-Olukosi compound, Ede in Osun State on May 15, 1950, during the reign of the late Oba John Adetoyese Laoye, the then Timi of Ede.
He began his acting career on stage and in 1972, and floated the Olofaina Theatre Troupe with the likes of Gbolagade Akinpelu and the late Oyetunji of Esinnla. The last time Olofaina, who featured in the 1989 home video by the late Alade Aromire, titled, Ekun, was in the news was in June 2021, when he tried to intervene in the matter between the comedienne Damilola Adekoya, aka Princess, and the now convicted, Omiyinka Olarenwaju aka Baba Ijesha. Burial arrangement for the veteran actor will be as announced by the family.
