{"id":65030,"date":"2025-04-29T04:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65030"},"modified":"2025-04-29T04:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:52:02","slug":"kidnap-claim-rocks-king-sunny-ades-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/29\/kidnap-claim-rocks-king-sunny-ades-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnap Claim Rocks King Sunny Ade\u2019s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wave of panic swept through fans and followers of music legend King Sunny Ade on Monday after his daughter, Damilola Esther Adeniyi-Adegeye, alleged on social media that the 78-year-old icon had been kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>Damilola accused the Juju maestro\u2019s stepbrother and manager of allegedly holding him against his will and endangering his health.<\/p>\n<p>Her emotional posts quickly gained traction online, fueling concern about the singer\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the drama, Instagram personality @Akanbitheduke echoed the alarm, claiming repeated failed attempts to reach King Sunny Ade directly and recounting the fears shared by a close friend of the family.<\/p>\n<p>But in swift response, a source close to the veteran performer dismissed the claims as false, insisting the music icon is safe and in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The aide urged the public to ignore the circulating stories.<\/p>\n<p>As confusion lingers, fans remain on edge, hoping for a public appearance or statement to settle the swirling controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A wave of panic swept through fans and followers of music legend King Sunny Ade on Monday after his daughter, Damilola Esther Adeniyi-Adegeye, alleged on social media that the 78-year-old icon had been kidnapped. Damilola accused the Juju maestro\u2019s stepbrother and manager of allegedly holding him against his will and endangering his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65032,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030\/revisions\/65032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}