By Tosin Oyediran
The Founder of Sunny Motors Limited and Omoregie Motors Limited, Pa Sunny Asemota, is dead.
He died at the age of 87.
According to a statement by his children made available to The PUNCH on Wednesday, Asemota died in his sleep on Thursday, May 19, 2022.
Born on April 21, 1935, to Pa Omoregie and Ma Ayanno Asemota in Benin City, Edo State, he was one of three sons in a family of five children.
After graduating from Government School, Benin City, he worked with his father on his rubber plantation.
His passion and vision for something different made him leave his father’s employment at the age of 23 years for Ibadan on March 30, 1958, where he worked for almost a year at Dab Beer as a salesman.
The late Omoregie joined Brooke Bond Tea in Apapa as an Assistant Sales Manager upon his arrival in Lagos before moving on into the automobile industry.
He went on to build his trademark and imprint great feats on the country’s auto game-changer walls.
He also had a short stint at Star Motors, Apapa, in 1960 before joining United Technologies Corporations, where he was awarded an Opel Caravan car for being the best salesman of the year. He then moved to Incar Motors in Ijora in 1961.
Omoregie, while a manager at Incar, married the love of his life, Ireti, on July 15, 1962, who was working at CFAO Motors also in Ijora. They were married with six children.
His automobile enthusiasm and interest in the dealership made him start trading in second-hand cars as a side business even while at Incar before he resigned in 1964 and established Sunny Asemota Motors in partnership with his wife…
