{"id":41829,"date":"2024-08-05T10:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41829"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:46:18","slug":"bbnaija-s9-ben-alleges-kiddwayas-dad-funded-five-governors-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/05\/bbnaija-s9-ben-alleges-kiddwayas-dad-funded-five-governors-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"BBNaija S9: Ben Alleges Kiddwaya\u2019s Dad Funded Five Governors\u2019 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a conversation among housemates on Sunday night, Big Brother Naija Season 9 contestant Ben made some startling claims about Kiddwaya, a former Season 5 housemate. According to Ben, Kiddwaya&#8217;s father, Terry Waya, is a major political sponsor in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ben alleged that Terry Waya has supported the election campaigns of five sitting governors, making him a significant player in Nigerian politics. This revelation came in response to fellow housemate Shaun&#8217;s comment about the lack of notable achievements among male BBNaija finalists after the show.<\/p>\n<p>Ben countered Shaun&#8217;s point by highlighting Kiddwaya&#8217;s affluent background and connections. He claimed that Kiddwaya&#8217;s father is extremely wealthy and has sponsored numerous political campaigns. Ben also shared that Kiddwaya had generously given N10 million to a fellow housemate from Season 5.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun was impressed by the potential influence that comes with such financial backing, and Ben elaborated on the significance of Terry Waya&#8217;s political involvement. However, Ben did not reveal the identities of the governors or the housemate who received the\u00a0N10\u00a0million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah During a conversation among housemates on Sunday night, Big Brother Naija Season 9 contestant Ben made some startling claims about Kiddwaya, a former Season 5 housemate. According to Ben, Kiddwaya&#8217;s father, Terry Waya, is a major political sponsor in Nigeria. Ben alleged that Terry Waya has supported the election campaigns of five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41855,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41829\/revisions\/41855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}