Stephen Keshi kicked the bucket with a broken heart, family sources have told Source.
"Since the demise of his significant other, Kate, in December 2015, his life had changed drastically," a relative said on Wednesday morning hours after the football symbol went on.
He said Keshi, 54, had gotten to be hypertensive "yet was overseeing it extremely well… continually taking his prescriptions and checking his circulatory strain consistently".
Another relative told Source that following the previous Super Birds' mentor lost his significant other, he had turned out to be lonely to the point that he was basically requesting telephone calls from companions.
"After the entombment of his better half, individuals for all intents and purposes left him to himself. The calls and visits got to be less, and he felt the agony the more. They were hitched for a long time and he watched the affection for his life fight fearlessly with malignancy for a long time. He was sad," he said.
Source comprehends that Keshi, who was because of go to the US later in the day, began grumbling of intense torments in his legs a couple of minutes to midnight.
He was hurried to the healing facility when the torments would not die down, but rather source couldn't affirm in the event that he kicked the bucket in transit or on entry.
In an announcement issued by his family, the preparatory reason for death was given as "heart failure".
Regarded sports columnist, Kayode Tijani, who was near Keshi, told source that he talked with the previous global a weekend ago.
"He inquired as to myself from a shared companion, so I promptly called him. He was so grateful. You would think I gave him something he didn't have. He continued saying thanks to me lavishly to call him," Tijani said.
At the point when his significant other kicked the bucket, Keshi had said: "She was sick for some time now I'm still in stun of this awesome misfortune.
"She is more similar to a sister to me and was the stone behind me and all that I do. My affection for her was at first sight."
They had four children.