Funke Akindele Deletes Politics-related Posts From Instagram Page

20 March 2023 Daily Bells Newspaper 0 min read

Few hours after the 2023 governorship election was announced, declaring the incumbent governor as the winner, the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State, Funke Akindele, has deleted all posts relating to politics and the PDP from her Instagram page.

Checks by our correspondent on Monday showed that the posts visible on her page of 15.7 million followers were that of her movie promotion and other personal posts.

Akindele and her principal, Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, were defeated by the incumbent governor and All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Saturday’s election.

Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 762,134 votes to defeat his closest, Labour Party, LP Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Dr. Olajide Adediran of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

LP polled 312,329 votes while PDP 62,449 votes.

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