Atiku Abubakar Former vice president of Nigeria has recalled how he joined his children in 2018 to see American actor Chadwick Boseman star in Marvel’s Black Panther.
The actor died aged 42 of colon cancer at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side.
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Atiku said in a tweet on Saturday that he was happy his children took him to see the movie, praising Chadwick’s acting skills.
“In 2018, I joined my children to watch the much talked about ‘Black Panther’. It was a good film, and I was happy they took me to see it. @chadwickboseman was an unprecedented and witty act, and his excellence was consistent across his many other movies. He will be dearly missed,” the former presidential candidate wrote.
Chadwick never spoke publicly of his ailment.
His family said he relived the King T’Challa character in Black Panther and several other iconic roles in different movies “during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy”.
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