Veteran Yoruba actor Yinka Quadri has finally addressed the rumoured fight with late colleague Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, insisting the rift was short, exaggerated, and never about money or women.
He spoke in an interview with Feelright News TV, a clip that began trending on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. Quadri admitted a brief tension did exist, but the public version of it grew far beyond what the two men lived through.
“Before God and man, we had a short beef, but it was not as serious as people are saying it was. They escalated and exaggerated it.”
He was equally firm about the cause.
“All glory to God, money was not the reason for our fight. Women were never the reason for our fight.”
Quadri said neither of them could pin the quarrel on one clear offence. He pointed instead to outsiders who carried stories between them.
“Maybe they told him something, because some people used to tell me things.”
The actor said the two never sat down for a public interview to explain the rift while Ogogo was alive. What he remembers is that they were already at ease with each other before anyone staged a formal peace. At a housewarming hosted by Yomi Fabiyi, he said, they were seated close, talking and laughing, even before the popular Yoruba enchanter Ajobiewe arrived.
“Ogogo and I were sitting close to each other at that party, even before Ajobiewe arrived. We were gisting and laughing together. So it’s not a serious beef. People are just exaggerating it.”
That account lines up with what Ogogo’s aide, Azeez Onifade, said days earlier. In a September 30 interview with Oyinmomo TV, Onifade said the quarrel had been settled before Ogogo’s death, and that Fabiyi brought the men together at the same housewarming, where Ajobiewe helped broker peace. Onifade also dismissed talk that Quadri’s tears at the burial were guilt over an unfinished fight.
Ogogo died on Sunday, August 23, 2026, at 66, after a battle with stage-four cancer. His daughter, Kira Hassan, confirmed the news, and he was buried the next day in Ilaro, Ogun State. Quadri was among the colleagues who broke down as the body was carried out, and he was emotional again at the eight-day fidau prayer, where he had to be led off after addressing the family.
Quadri traced the friendship back to 1984 and described Ogogo as a brother, a confidant, and a companion, not a rival he spent years at war with.