{"id":75549,"date":"2025-09-23T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75549"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:48:23","slug":"dispute-over-car-loan-trails-death-of-skitmaker-sanku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/23\/dispute-over-car-loan-trails-death-of-skitmaker-sanku\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispute Over Car Loan Trails Death of Skitmaker Sanku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The death of comedian and content creator Adetola Samad, popularly known as Sanku, in a September 2 car crash along Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State, has sparked controversy over an unsettled auto loan.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow comedian Folorunsho Olayinka (Finest), who stood as guarantor for Sanku in the purchase of a 2012 Lexus RX 350 worth \u20a625.4 million, said the late skitmaker had paid \u20a612.28 million, leaving over \u20a613 million outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>He denied online allegations linking him to Sanku\u2019s death, insisting he only facilitated the deal through Ilorin-based JJ Motors Empire.<\/p>\n<p>But another associate claimed Sanku was under pressure to return the Lexus and switch to a cheaper Toyota Venza, alleging the unpaid balance was closer to \u20a62.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>A WhatsApp voice note attributed to Sanku suggested he felt coerced into returning the SUV without being offered a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Sanku had unveiled the Lexus in June on TikTok, expressing gratitude to Finest.<\/p>\n<p>His death was later confirmed by actor Yemi Elesho, prompting widespread mourning across Nigeria\u2019s entertainment scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; The death of comedian and content creator Adetola Samad, popularly known as Sanku, in a September 2 car crash along Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State, has sparked controversy over an unsettled auto loan. Fellow comedian Folorunsho Olayinka (Finest), who stood as guarantor for Sanku in the purchase of a 2012 Lexus RX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75549","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=75549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75551,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75549\/revisions\/75551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}