How 3SC marketing officer,

Ademola Abodunrin died..

By Ayo Ademokoya.

No 14 Akinola Maja Jericho office of  Shooting stars was pensive as staff and visitors were in a very low spirit, apparently still in deep shock and disbelief over the death of Demmy who is suspected to have been hypertensive and may have died due to high blood pressure.

“He came to work after leaving the training pitch of the team early in the morning as usual and had a meeting with the newly constituted marketing team of Shooting Stars, shortly after he began to complain about chest pain around 11:00 am before the General Manager, Rasheed Balogun instructed 3SC’s driver to take  Demola in his personal car to the hospital. Raheed Balogun in the company of Isaac Ibafidon,  later visited him around 2:00pm and left 10,000 naira with him pending the time he will be back from Kaduna ,only to be told that Demola gave up the ghost around 3:30pm

These and many more facts were unearthed this morning when www.harohkah.blogspot.com.ng paid condolence visit to the management of Shooting Stars on the demise of one of his notable Marketing officer , Mr Ademola Abodurin who died on Friday ,21 st of January ,2016 ,at  private hospital in Ibadan. His  remains has since been deposited at a private morgue in Yemetu Ibadan.

Aged of 58 years old, Demola was survived by a wife and two children, Oyindamola, his first daughter who is stiil at the law school in Abuja while Olumide his second son is a 200 level undergraduate at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.

“Yes, he was a high blood pressure suspect, I think the blood pressure rose to about 194 or there about before he was advised to go to the hospital, says our source who prefer anonymity. He should have been given first aid before he left for the hospital but unfortunately he ate and that must have aggravated the level to about 200. I am not a doctor but I believe what would happen is bound to happen and we have to submit ourselves to the will of God.

Another of our source said that Demola was here joking as usual with one of our colleagues planning to kidnapped the GM, claiming that if the plot is successful all the club owner in Nigeria would donate money for the release of the General Manager and we all were laughing not knowing that that would be the last time we would laugh together, The guy that was with him (Sina) is still in the hospital because he cannot believe Demola is dead.

Apparently devastated, the media officer of Shooting Stars, Jubril Arowolo was incoherent and still staring at Demola’s sit in the same office that they share in his lifetime

“Ayo, I can’t believe this is how people dies, do you know that all the activities we had here from media to marketing was coordinated by both of us, I mean in the last one week we were closer than before, on Thursday he was the one who dropped at Mokola round about as usual and we planned to meet with Olalomi Amole and Co who were hyping our activities on their program with a token from both of us. I just have to tell them that Demola who was to come with me last Saturday died of Friday.

“I had no premonition that Demola has died because I came to the office briefly in the afternoon, Our GM then called that we all should visit him at the hospital immediately close from office and told us to tell him he can take today (Monday) off. We all were on the road after we watched the match between Nigeria and Tunisia and those who went ahead of us on a motorcycled called us in the car that Demola has already packed up.

“I can’t believe that someone I spoke to around 12:30 pm on Friday was the one lying lifeless around 5pm.It was as if he was sleeping and I felt like just telling him to stand up and let us go home. Not until we dropped him at the mortuary without him complaining that it dawned on me that Demola is truly gone. He said tearfully.  

This is a death too many for Sports Fraternity in Oyo state as Oladele Eweje a former player of 3SC, Adekanola Ogunkola(wife of Bunmi Ogunkola a foremost referee in Nigeria) and another sport enigma died and buried subsequently last week in Ibadan.

On hand to receive visitors on behalf of the club was the Club’s administrative secretary, Alhaji Aransi and other staff of