{"id":241470,"date":"2026-08-19T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osun-election-akpabio-phoned-me-to-delete-tweet-i-made-against-him-davido\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:02:21","slug":"nigeria-osun-election-akpabio-phoned-me-to-delete-tweet-i-made-against-him-davido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osun-election-akpabio-phoned-me-to-delete-tweet-i-made-against-him-davido\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Osun Election &#8211; Akpabio Phoned Me to Delete Tweet I Made Against Him &#8211; Davido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Afrobeats star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has claimed that Senate President Godswill Akpabio contacted him during the Osun governorship election and asked him to delete a social media post he had made against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The music star, who actively canvassed support for his uncle during the election, had accused Nigeria&#8217;s number three citizen of interfering with the collation process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;Sen. President Akpabio has called the collation center that they should stop collation!!!!&#8221; Davido had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190132.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>Afrobeats star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has claimed that Senate President Godswill Akpabio contacted him during the Osun governorship election and asked him to delete a social media post he had made against him. The music star, who actively canvassed support for his uncle during the election, had accused Nigeria&#8217;s number three citizen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,23255,15711,19605,3119,257,4687,393,8991,55204,254,16045],"class_list":["post-241470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpabio","tag-davido","tag-delete","tag-election","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osun","tag-phoned","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tweet"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241470","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=241470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}