The Lagos socialite popularly known as Asake
was announced to have died on Sunday March 9, 2013 at the Ikeja
General Hospital, Ikeja Lagos.
The ever bubbly lady who owned and ran
the self titled popular Ikeja pub, Asake, located on Joel Ogunaike
Street, GRA, Ikeja died after battling a strange illness for months.
Sources close to the deceased say she
had been sick for months and from what doctors initially explained as a
kidney infection. ‘She stopped coming to the bar for sometime now
and we were only told that she was sick. It was later that we now heard
that she was having kidney problem‘, said one of the ladies that
owns a shop in the same complex as Asake.
NET gathered that the deceased seriously
lost weight, her skin had became pale and was bedridden for the last
few weeks before she eventually passed on.
And some sources say Asake’s ailment may
have been spiritually orchestrated.
A source who claims to be an associate
of Asake’s only son, Michael, told NET that her family
had gone to different sources for help but to no avail. ‘Even the
family could not tell exactly what was wrong with her or the source of
the illness. They had taken her to different churches seeking for
healing but nothing changed‘, the source said.
‘The kidney problem didn’t kill her,
it’s the stroke that that she had that dealt the final blow‘, our
source continued.
When NET visited the popular pub on
Friday, March 15, the place was a total wreck. The furniture were lying
outside and abandoned while the doors were smashed and off the hinges.
According to NET’s investigation, the place had been like that for weeks
even before Asake’s death. A security man at the complex who gave his
name as James told us, ‘Last month it seemed as if Asake was getting
better, and so there was a need for renovations. It was while the
renovation was going on, that she finally died, so all work just
stopped.‘
The security man also told NET reporters
that Asake’s son Michael who had been around the premises that same day
could be found at the nearby hotel The Cave which was located on the
same street.
Getting to the hotel, Michael’s
telephone number was handed out. When NET called, a first voice refused
to answer all of the questions, with a repeated ‘I don’t know’ answer.
Then a second voice took the phone and said, ‘wrong number’ and then
dropped the call.
As at press time, none of her neighbours
was ready to disclose her actual residence or where her family could be
located. The son, we gathered, lives in Ajah.
No details yet on burial plans.
Asake’s bar – a shadow if its old self…
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