Recounting the last moment of the deceased, his Personal Assistant, Razak Adedigba, said Enahoro was last attended to by his doctor on Wednesday.
Front-line tennis promoter, Chris Enahoro is dead. He passed on yesterday morning in his Lagos home. He was 80.
Until his death, he was the coordinator of the Chevron Tennis Masters, reputed to be the production line of today’s top tennis players. Enahoro, a former schoolboy athlete, who in the 1950s and early 60s held the West African high jump record, reportedly died after a brief illness. The former Government College Ibadan old boy, who played football for the defunct Western Region and was also captain of Nigerian cricket national team,, died after a brief illness.
His Ajao Street residence, was yesterday swarming with a stream of visitors, who had come to confirm the news and pay their condolences to the former Nigerian cricket star, who went on to become the Chairman of the Nigeria Cricket Association.
Amidst weeping and sobbing, the awe-stricken sympathisers watched as Enahoro’s lifeless body was wheeled off by undertakers to an undisclosed location. As news of his demise started filtering out, an eerie feeling enveloped the Nigerian tennis community, reeling from the shock and vacuum that his death has created.
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