{"id":6370,"date":"2022-02-06T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2022-02-06T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:31:59","slug":"i-am-not-a-polygamist-odegbami-debunks-newspaper-headline-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not A Polygamist, Odegbami Debunks Newspaper Headline Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The owner of Eagle-7 Radio, Segun Odegbami has clarified some information about the interview granted to The Nation newspaper and published on February 5, 2022 which presents aspects of misinterpretation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The publication which was titled &#8220;I&#8217;ve no scandals, polygamy is part of Egbaman&#8217;s life&#8221; gives the impression that the former Nigerian footballer who is from Egba, Ogun State consents to polygamy as a common practice of his people, &#8220;This is completely misleading, and it depicts a negative impression of the true state of affairs in my life, &#8221; he stated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Mr. Segun Odegbami clearly indicates that the title was structured from his conversation between his father which explains the position of his father regarding how a family should be, &#8220;I had a discussion with my father 30 years ago on how I was living in Nigeria alone when my ex-wife and family were living abroad. He suggested it was not healthy and that I should either join them abroad, make them return, or marry another wife, it was his practical suggestion, what his Egba people would have done and I didn&#8217;t follow the counsel.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The former candidate for governor in Ogun disapproved of the headline, indicating that he is not polygamous: &#8220;To put the records straight: I am not a polygamist. I don&#8217;t practice it. I have nothing against those that do. I am a monogamist, &#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Mr. Odegbemi who is a former Super Eagles player and the winner of 1980 African Cup of Nation appealed to friends and family who are deeply shocked by the publication, &#8220;I have hurt sensibilities and sincerely apologize to my immediate family and to my Egba kinsmen for this unfortunate and erroneous misrepresentation.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of Eagle-7 Radio, Segun Odegbami has clarified some information about the interview granted to The Nation newspaper and published on February 5, 2022 which presents aspects of misinterpretation. The publication which was titled &#8220;I&#8217;ve no scandals, polygamy is part of Egbaman&#8217;s life&#8221; gives the impression that the former Nigerian footballer who is from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[3786,3785,3783,3784],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-sports","tag-headline","tag-newspaper","tag-polygamist","tag-segun-odegbami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}