Caretaker Chairman, Ede North Local Government Area, Honourable Taiwo Amodu, has expressed sadness over the death of Ede-born renowned Nollywood actor, the late Chief Aderemi Adedeji aka Olofa Ina.
The local government chairman expressed his condolences on the death of the popular Yoruba actor in a statement he personally signed.
Honourable Amodu described the late actor as an “exceptionally gifted, vivacious and an ambassador of Yoruba language, culture and traditions, with an uncommon eloquence.”
Until his death, the late Olofa Ina was one of the elder statesmen in the Yoruba theatre industry.
He was a prominent chief as the Sobaloju to paramount ruler of Ede Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba Dr Munirudeen Adesola Lawal.
The Ede North Local Goverment boss commiserated with the family, friends, colleagues and entire people of Ede land on the irreparable loss.
He prayed to God to rest the soul of the late Chief Aderemi Adedeji aka Olofa Ina in peace.
The late veteran actor was born during the reign of the then Timi of Edeland, the late Oba John Adetoyese Laoye.
He had his primary education at St. Peters Anglican Primary School between 1957 and 1962 and then proceeded to Baptist Secondary Modern School, Ode-Omu from 1963 to 1965.
The deceased later had a vocational training in carpentry and joinery at Olukorede Furniture Industry between 1965 and 1970.
The late Chief Adedeji Aderemi received his training as a theatre practitioner under tutelage of the late Oyetunji.
Prior to 1980, he had earlier floated the Olofa Ina Theatre Group in 1972 with the likes of Erinfolami, Dasofunjo, Gbolagade Akinpelu and the late Oyetunji of Esinnla Compound, Ede.
The Olofa Ina Group recorded landmark achievements in the theatre industry by pioneering the staging of epical histories of the Yoruba warlords of the 18th and 19th centuries.
These included Basorun Ogunmola, Balogun Ibikunle, Ogedengbe Agbogungboro of Ilesha, Aare Kurunmi of Ijaye, Kakanfo Afonja and a host of others.
