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Comedian Peteru is dead

Popular Nigerian comedian, Oluwatobi Owomoyela, well known as Peteru, has been confirmed dead.

It was gathered that Peteru died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer.

The death of the Ibadan-based comedian was disclosed by Nollywood actor, Muyiwa Ademola, via a video shared on his Instagram page on Thursday morning.

“This is a very hard pill to swallow! How could this jolly good fellow just depart this world in this manner?

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“Hmmm… it is well. Please be kind to one another as we don’t even know what we are individually passing through!

“I learnt Peteru died of cancer. You were battling such burden yet I never saw you without a smile! It is well. It is well. It is well. Journey well great guy. I am out of words tonight,” Ademola wrote.

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