{"id":241663,"date":"2026-02-22T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/how-tinubu-and-his-wife-intervened-after-my-accident-saheed-balogun\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:32:53","slug":"how-tinubu-and-his-wife-intervened-after-my-accident-saheed-balogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/how-tinubu-and-his-wife-intervened-after-my-accident-saheed-balogun\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tinubu And His Wife Intervened After My Accident \u2013 Saheed Balogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Popular Nollywood actor and filmmaker, <strong>Saheed Balogun<\/strong>, has revealed how President Bola Ahmed <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>and his wife planned to send him abroad for medical treatment after he was involved in a ghastly accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Balogun spoke in an interview on OYINMOMO TV, recounting how the crash left him in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the President and the First Lady quickly stepped in and insisted that he should be flown out of the country for proper care. He explained that although he later received quality treatment in Nigeria, the couple\u2019s concern left a deep mark on him.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was surprised by their decision and had asked the First Lady why she went to such lengths on his behalf. Balogun said she told him he was a star given by God and that his light must not go out.<\/p>\n<p>He added that her words changed the way he sees life and kindness. The actor noted that from that moment, he understood the value of looking after others.<\/p>\n<p>He said he learned that when a person cares for another person\u2019s child, God in return watches over their own children.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201c<em>When I had an accident. President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>and his wife stepped in and asked that I be taken abroad for treatment. I was well treated in Nigeria. I asked aunty why she did it. She said, \u2018You are a star of God, and they must not let your light dim.\u2019 It was from her I learnt that if you take care of someone else\u2019s child, God will take care of yours.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Saheed Balogun, has revealed how President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife planned to send him abroad for medical treatment after he was involved in a ghastly accident. Abia Radio News reports that Balogun spoke in an interview on OYINMOMO TV, recounting how the crash left him in a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[187,3293],"class_list":["post-241663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-saheed-balogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/markup_1000113204.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}