Sunny Ade Loses MD

Kayode Aponmade

King Sunny Ade’s Managing Director and Juju Musician, Sunday Abayomi, popularly called Sunny Wonder, is dead.

He died on Thursday night in his house at 9, Fatai Oluyole Street, Aboru, a suburb of  Lagos in western Nigeria.

Sources said he collapsed after taking his bath at about 10 p.m.

According to his wife, he has been sick for three weeks or so, but she did not disclose the kind of ailment.

P.M.NEWS gathered that King Sunny Ade contracted a team of Indian doctors to treat him but no particular ailment was diagnosed.

As at the time of filing this report, efforts to speak with Sunny Ade about the tragedy were unsuccessful.

Abayomi’s corpse has been deposited in a private mortuary in Lagos.

Sunny Wonder, 55, hailed from Idoani, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State and is survived by an aged mother, wife and four children.