Lekan Oladapo a.k.a. Giorgio Lekinson, a foundation member of the
Yoruba genre of Nigerian home videos on Wednesday, January 26, 2012 was
announced to have had his last breath due to cancer of the lung ailment
he battled with for years before he eventually lost out. Interestingly,
Lekinson’s disappearance from the movie scene before he died early last
year remains the reason some movie buffs still find it hard to believe
that he’s dead!
It would be recall that Lekinson, who would forever be remembered for
his slangs and good interpretation of the role of a fraudster in most
Yoruba films, battled with drug related problems and when family and
friends thought Giorgio Lekinson had cheated death, the gifted actor
passed on.But all might not be true again as barely a year after the
demise of the handsome actor, amazingly, his first son, Babatunde
Oladipo, stepped into his father’s shoes and has picked up the trade
where his father left it.
Though, before the death of his dad, Armani Arante as the Yabatech’s
graduate of Business Administration is popularly called, was involved
with his dad’s stuff and others, this time, he’s set to bring his late
dad back to live again with his dad’s unfinished project, ‘Irosun Meji.’
Apart from picking roles in popular films like ‘Omolabake’, ‘Oko
Obinrin’, ‘Figurine’ among few others, Armani Arante is getting set to
hit location for his personal film project that may come after
premiering Irosun Meji, Lekinson’s last movie film which he never lived
to release.
Recalling how he gets into acting, “Apart from the fact that I picked
after my father, to be a successful actor has been my childhood
ambition but my father do tell me to finish my education before going to
acting.
My passion for acting grew when I started following him to movie
locations. While in higher institution, I opted for Business
Administration because of my love for banking job but life later played
me its card as I’m back to my first love which is acting,” Armani said.
It’s no doubt that my father was a ladies’ man but it may shock you that
my mother remained his only wife whom they had two kids together, I and
my younger brother, Abiodun,” he said.
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