A 5th Nigerian, 43-year-old father of 2, Mikail Osundiji, has also d!ed while watching the match between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday, February 7.
According to reports, the deceased went into shock and d!ed while watching the match at a public football viewing centre in Olomoore area of Abeokuta.
Eyewitnesses say the deceased d!ed when the referee cancelled Nigeria’s second goal against South Africa, by Victor Osimhen.
Relatives said he did not show any sign of sickness prior to his death.
An older sister to the deceased, Mrs. Adetunji Nofisat, who confirmed the sad incident to newsmen said Osundiji suddenly breathed out heavily after the cancellation of the Nigeria’s second goal, lowered his head and fell to the ground at the football viewing center.
“That was when other people at the football viewing center rushed to him and took him to one of the private hospitals in Olomoore before the doctor on duty pronounced him dead”, the deceased’s sister said
Nofisat however, disclosed that the remains of the deceased had been buried on Thursday afternoon according to the Islamic rites.
“We cannot take his corpse to his hometown, Okuku in Osun State because he still has a father, mother and two children who are of 12 and 7 years of age”, she said.