{"id":73173,"date":"2025-08-14T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73173"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:23:52","slug":"davido-defends-ubi-franklin-over-watch-theft-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/davido-defends-ubi-franklin-over-watch-theft-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido Defends Ubi Franklin Over Watch Theft Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talent manager Ubi Franklin has denied claims that he stole a luxury wristwatch during Davido\u2019s wedding in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations surfaced online shortly after the event, linking Franklin to a missing watch.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin took to X (formerly Twitter) to clarify the situation, explaining that a man named Benny had approached him in Miami to sell a watch.<\/p>\n<p>After verifying its history, Franklin declined to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Later, during the church service, Benny\u2019s brother delivered another watch, which Franklin purchased and fully paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the busy nature of the wedding, Franklin briefly had both watches and even wore one.<\/p>\n<p>He left Miami shortly after to attend his sister\u2019s funeral. During his flight, Benny contacted him about the first watch.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin emphasized that he had never stolen anything and noted that Benny had already dismissed the theft claim earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>He described the ordeal as \u201ca difficult and sensitive time\u201d but confirmed this would be his only public statement.<\/p>\n<p>Davido later shared Franklin\u2019s statement on social media, adding: \u201cYou owe nobody any explanation\u2026 fools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Talent manager Ubi Franklin has denied claims that he stole a luxury wristwatch during Davido\u2019s wedding in Miami. The allegations surfaced online shortly after the event, linking Franklin to a missing watch. Franklin took to X (formerly Twitter) to clarify the situation, explaining that a man named Benny had approached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73173","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73175,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73173\/revisions\/73175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}