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Late Fuji icon, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWith Ogbonna Amadi, Entertainment Edito
\nThe Isolo, Lagos, residence and final burial place of fallen Fuji icon, the late Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Ololade Agbajelola Balogun, is to be converted into a museum and tourist centre.
\nAnd, to achieve this the children and widows of the late Fuji maestro are to be relocated and the building renovated to meet up with its new status.
\nSpeaking to exclusively to Sunday Entertainment were two of his children \u2014 Samson Suleiman said:\u00a0 \u201c In line with his wish, the Fuji Chambers his last resting place is to become a tourist centre and museum.
\nIt will also house offices and recording studio. Everything that represents Alhaji Agba remains here, for this was where Fuji music was born.
\n\u2018\u2019The first step towards realising the dream is that the current residents of the chamber, my step-mother, her children and my elder will relocate for the dream to come true.\u201d
\nWhat they say about Barrister
\nIt is no longer news that the Fuji maestro is dead and was buried on Thursday. What is news is the feeling of the persons whose lives he touched in his short sojourn on earth.
\nWe spoke to two of his children, his former media manager and Alhaji Lati Alagbada, Chief executive of Lati Alagbada Records, the company he was signed on before his demise
\nSamson\u2014 son
\nWhat can one say? He was talking well and recovered fully as he said to us. We were in high spirit as he was getting ready to return home.
\nAnd, suddenly the news filtered in that we had lost our father and bread winner. Naturally, the news came to us as a rude shock. It was totally unexpected. I was at work in the Governor\u2019s office when someone called to tell me that Barrister is dead.\u00a0 When I heard the news, I couldn\u2019t, cry, couldn\u2019t sit and I couldn\u2019t talk. In fact, my boss had to attach someone to me so that I don\u2019t do something silly.\u00a0 But, I had to hold myself and I have accepted the situation as the will of Allah.
\nI lost a strict and caring father\u2014 Suleiman, son
\nHe told me he was perfectly okay and fit to come back home on January 15. He told he me had recorded four singles which he planned to release on his return to Nigeria.
\nAs you know and as it is his tradition, he had called me on the day I turned 30 which was on December\u00a0 15, a day before he died.
\nHe spent more than two hours praying and singing my praise. I would never have believed that I was spending the last moment with my father.
\nI remember my father today like always. A very strict but caring and loving father, he would spare time to visit me in school.
\nA kind man, Alhaji paid school fees of children of some very uncaring and yet prominent colleagues of his.
\nWhen someonecalled me from London to tell me of his demise, I called the guy a joker. Yes. How could he explain that when I had spoken to my father till late into the night of December 15. But, alas it was true.
\nHe died with his dream \u2014\u00a0 Elder Dayo Odeyemi, Manager
\nHe was until he joined the Barrister organisation as head of media, a practising journalist. For more than three decades, he held sway as spokes\u2019 person for the organisation.
\nHe speaks on his relationship with the fallen Fuji maestro.
\nI worked for Barrister for more than 30 years. He was a man with a difference and also very humble.
\nI was a practising journalist with the Sketch Newspapers when I met Barrister in the 70s.
\nI used to feature him and other musicians on my pages and that\u2019s how our relationship developed.
\nAnd, when I was transferred to Port Harcourt as the Sketch zonal editor in 1981, he came and said to me \u2018look, you are going to leave this job.\u2019
\nEventually, I resigned from the job in 1990 to officially join the Barrister Organisation as manager in charge of media communication. Before then, I was handling his media affairs as a journalist still on The Sketch payroll.
\nHis cars
\nHe loved cars. In his garage, you\u2019d find every brand of exotic cars.\u00a0 And, as a matter of fact, on the day doctors pronounced Barrister dead, the brand-new Chrysler SUV he bought in the United States of America, arrived in the country.
\nHe had planned to drive the new car into his new house\u00a0 and was to commission it this March in Ibadan, Oyo State.
\nThe house furniture was also bought in the Unites States.
\nHe was also a very wonderful dresser. In fact, there are very few of his contemporaries who could compete with him in that area.
\nBarrister will be missed by my family for his kindness. It\u2019s a great loss.
\nAlhaji Lati Alagbada, CEO Alagbada Records
\nHis financial contribution to the well-being of the late Fuji King ensured he enjoyed sound health until death took him away.
\nA business partner to the fallen icon, Alagbada lost a lifetime opportunity of getting the troubled musician to honour a four-album recording deal.
\nHe speaks on his relationship with Barrister.
\nMy relationship with Alhaji started in 1998 when I signed him on to my label to record the album titled Prophesy. But, after that recording, the relationship collapsed.
\nBut, in 2005, we renegotiated and the business commenced a second time. And, ever since, we have remained committed to each other until now.
\nFrom the day this illness that took away Alhaji began, I have remained by his side. From Havana Hospital through to India where he spent three months, Germany and London where he finally died, I never left his side.
\nBarrister as a miracle patient
\nA strange incident happened in India where Alhaji underwent a major surgery. Six hours after the surgery, he failed to come out of coma. As a matter of fact, the doctors had certified him dead and were getting ready to move him to the mortuary when it was noticed that he had started breathing.
\nHe was immediately moved back into intensive care, where he was immediately put on the oxygen mask. His recovery dazzled the Indian doctors who immediately dubbed him the miracle patient.
\nHis unfulfilled dream
\nFollowing his miraculous recovery in India, I held talks with Alhaji and we both agreed that his new album be titled Mircale. We had also agreed that as soon as he returned to Nigeria this month, he was to commence recording for the first leg of our four-album deal.
\nMy organisation\u00a0 had paid for studio sessions at the Eko Real mix studio.
\nI spoke to Alhaji three days before his demise and while we chatted, he sang for more than 15 minutes, while offering prayers for me and my business. He also assured me that the songs he was going to record will put smiles on our faces.\u00a0 I was happy, but all that changed when I got the news of his demise.
\nI don\u2019t want say anything about the money spent on him, we give glory to Allah who made all things possible. As things stand now, I have the sole marketing rights to all the works of Alhaji. No other person is authorised by the family to conduct the business of marketing his works except that person wants to face the wrath of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Ogbonna Amadi, Entertainment Edito The Isolo, Lagos, residence and final burial place of fallen Fuji icon, the late Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Ololade Agbajelola Balogun, is to be converted into a museum and tourist centre. 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