Breaking!! Veteran Nollywood Actor, Olumide Bakare is dead.

Today, definitely is a sad day in Nollywood. Reports gathered claims that the actor is yet to fully recover from the sickness. But then, his condition worsened at the middle of the night and he was said to have called on his PA to take him UCH in the middle of the night but died before he could be conveyed to the hospital.

Olumide Bakare, while on his sick bed at UCH, once told Ace TV broadcaster in Yoruba “Jide Omo Moronfolu, agbara mi o ka mo o(meaning /Jide, I can’t hold on much longer).”

He will surely be missed by fans, colleagues, and family.

The thespian, who had been sick since last year, according to family sources, underwent a surgery Friday night at University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan for an undisclosed ailment.

"His situation however gone bad during the procedure and he could not make it. So he died", a close family source, Abiodun Alarape told Amiloaded.

Bakare, it was learnt was rushed to UCH on January 24, after suffering cardiac arrest.

His condition was however said to have improved, until he went in for the procedure and failed to make it out alive.

His death which came as a rude shock to his numerous fans globally while most of them still find it difficult to believ

May His Soul Rest In Peace