Actor Baba Suwe reportedly seriously ill

Sources close to the 51-year-old actor revealed to Pulse that he has been battling chronic diabetes.

The state of his health has allegedly deteriorated after he confirmed to have been battling the ailment in 2018.

“I am diabetic. As a result of that, my blood sugar level usually fluctuates but things are normal now. There was a time when I could not even talk. Very soon though, everybody will see me in another dimension in a movie,” he told Punch in an interview in 2018.

Sources also alleged that Baba Suwe’s finances had nosedived after his ordeal in the hands of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on suspicion of drug trafficking.

The actor is alleged to be currently walking with the aid of a stick and had denied reports that he was having financial challenges when one of his colleagues, Yomi Fabiyi, raised an alarm on his inability to raise funds to treat himself.

Mr Latin has reacted to claims that Baba Suwe’s colleagues have abandoned him despite his failing health.

Mr Latin, who is the National President of the Theatre Arts and Motions Pictures Producers Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN, said the association had been taking care of Baba Suwe’s medical bills since 2017.

Mr Latin made this known in Abeokuta on Monday, 18th February.

The comic actor also said his colleague had been getting financial and moral support from TAMPAN since the news broke under the administration of immediate past President of the association, Dele Odule.

“I have just instructed the Lagos State executive of the association to check on him (Baba Suwe) to ascertain his health progress,” he says.

“I can tell you that we have not abandoned Baba Suwe, as well as any of our members, as being speculated in some quarters by mischief-makers,” Odule adds.