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ARTICLE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADMIRAL DELE ABIODUN, THE FIRST MUSICIAN, WHO CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION.

   ARTICLE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADMIRAL DELE ABIODUN, THE FIRST MUSICIAN, WHO CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION. By Sunday Ajibola Edobor   Let me start this piece by congratulating Admiral Dele Abiodun, the juju musician on his 75th birthday anniversary. Happy celebrations.  Life offers man many choices in some areas and no choice in certain aspects at all. Sounds contradictory? Hear me out. We are at liberty to do as we please. But we have no power over the resultant effect of our actions. We have seen people who peg out in their toddlers or teenage years. Some attain mid-age and then bow out. Others die at old age. In this country, whoever live to old age has enjoyed the abundant grace of the Almighty God. It's even more difficult for those in the music industry, I mean musicians. Their riotous lifestyles and the infighting often lead them to their early graves. For Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Ade and Dele Abiodun as well a few others, to attain 70, 80 and even beyond, it is a ve...