ENCOMIUMS TRAIL AK MEDIA BOSS AS NEWS OF HIS SUDDEN DEATH SHAKES THE MEDIA

Encomiums have been trailing the Late Marketing Guru and television drama producer, Asiwaju Benson Akindeju.

AK MEDIA Boss, a Content producer with award winning television drama series passed on at the age of 59.

In a statement signed by his younger brother, Sunday Akindeju; he said, “With utmost submission to the will of God we announce the sudden demise of our father, uncle, brother and son, Asiwaju Benson Akindeju. My brother, a devoted Christian passed on yesterday 4th of March, 2019 after a brief illness in a London Hospital.

Colleagues and some of his employee have described him as a wonderful man whose contributions to human development will forever remain in people’s memory.

Being a community leader, his town, Igbotako in Okitipupa local

government of Ondo state was thrown into mourning yesterday as they got the news of his death. His zeal for a better and vibrant Igbotako his home town made him invested widely and thus made the town more popular amongst towns and villages in the area.   

Benson Akintola is the producer of the following programs, FACE2FACE, FAMILY TIES, NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, LIBERTY VILLA, OYINMOMO ON DSTV and many more.

Benson was a business man whose passion for entertainment made him had a shot in hospitality business thus having a hotel in Lagos and his home town Igbotako in Ondo state.  

He was the general manager of Wale Adenuga Production for many years; before he set up AK MEDIA Concepts Ltd; a Content Production company in the year 2005.

Akindeju was widely known in the media Agencies for his track records of being a successful Media Marketing Guru of over three decades.

He is an alumni of University of Manchester Business School United Kingdom.

A fellow of the Institute of Data Processing Management of Nigeria, Also a full member of National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, and a member; Electronic Content Owners of Nigeria (EMCOAN).

He is the ASIWAJU of Saint John’s Anglican Church, Igbotako, Ondo state.

Details of his burial arrangement will be announced later.