Mustapha Amego, Former PMAN President, Dies Of Cancer

A former President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, Mustapha Amego,  is down with colon cancer. Amego, who has been based in the US for years, is currently undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, US. The ex-boss of the now-troubled association died after his doctors in the United States of America (USA), where had been receiving treatment, sent him home to die since there was no hope of curing his cancer. He was said to have died in the early hours of today

While it seems the former TV personality’s state of health has been kept under wraps all the while, it was not until his wife, Marrie announced it in a Facebook post than it became public.

Her post read, “Mustapha has been battling cancer for a few years. Some of you may not have known he is sick, and this news may come as a great surprise. The doctors have done their best; but now it is in God’s hands. We ask you send him prayers and love.”

Amego, a star TV host of the 90s, was the host of the then popular weekly music-dance show, Sunday Rendezvous and Kessington Hit Show. He was also the PMAN president  from 1993 to 1996. After his  tenure, he relocated to the US where he worked with the Discovery Channel as a content producer, editor and tricaster operator.

 In an emotional post on his Facebook account, the ailing star wrote, “I just wished God would give me more time to thank every Nigerian. I am grateful to have been born Nigerian.  Zuky, I thank you, Joel, Jude, Alex Zitto, and everybody. I am at peace and have accepted my circumstance. I don’t have much time left.

“But I am fulfilled. I want to be remembered as a son, a father who did his best to reach out, remember me as somebody who, despite disagreements, always found ways to put myself in people’s shoes.

“Zuky, it’s in God’s hands now. And I am happy, man, because I started this life’s journey with half full cup and filled it. It was difficult, but I filled it. I am fulfilled. Increase prayers.”

Meanwhile, some of his contemporaries, including Skidd Ikemefuna and Alex Zitto, have also tried to strengthen his hope, in various tribute-laden Facebook posts.