{"id":240539,"date":"2026-08-07T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-restriction-on-osun-account-why-i-feel-embarrassed-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:35:56","slug":"nigeria-restriction-on-osun-account-why-i-feel-embarrassed-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-restriction-on-osun-account-why-i-feel-embarrassed-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Restriction On Osun Account &#8211; Why I Feel Embarrassed &#8211; Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\"><em>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he feels embarrassed over the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&#8217;s (EFCC) decision to obtain a court order restricting the Osun State Government&#8217;s bank accounts, saying the timing of the action could create the impression that the Federal Government is interfering in the state&#8217;s forthcoming governorship election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In a statement he personally signed on Thursday, the President said he was not embarrassed by the EFCC&#8217;s exercise of its statutory&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he feels embarrassed over the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&#8217;s (EFCC) decision to obtain a court order restricting the Osun State Government&#8217;s bank accounts, saying the timing of the action could create the impression that the Federal Government is interfering in the state&#8217;s forthcoming governorship election. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[4313,258,256,15241,13907,257,4687,393,8991,33132,254,8308],"class_list":["post-240539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-account","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embarrassed","tag-feel","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osun","tag-restriction","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}