LIFE AND DEATH OF WAIDI YUSUF GBOGBO-IWO POPULARLY KNOWN AS AYINLA OMOWURA Waidi Yusuf was born at Itoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria in the 1930s. Ayinla was the first born of his parents. Yusufu his father was a blacksmith, which he taught all his children including Ayinla. An informant said he drove taxi for a while before he finally chose the music line. Omowuramotu traveled to Mecca and Medina to perform the holy pilgrimage and thus became an Alhaji in 1975. He had 6 wives and 18 Children. His life was cut short on May 8, 1980 through a fracas which occurred between him and his band boys, and was hit on the head with a beer bottle by his manager- Baiyewu. while other accounts maintain that there was a misunderstanding between Ayinla and Baiyewu not with the band boys. It happened at Itoko, Abeokuta in front of a beer parlour and not at a show. It was said that Omowura had been looking for Baiyewu for a while, so when he spotted him at the beer parlour, he told his driver to go and fetch the police for Baiyewu’s arrest. Baiyewu then hit Ayinla on the head with a cup (tumbler) which he was using to drink in a bid to escape police arrest, but this eventually led to Ayinla’s death at Ijaye General Hospital Abeokuta.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:56:55 +0000
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