The management of Nigerian recording artiste, David Adeleke who is better known as Davido has announced the postponement his Are We Africans Yet (A.W.A.Y) festival in Atlanta following the demise of his son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.
The “A.W.A.Y” festival was scheduled to hold on November 18th, 2022 at the 20,000-capacity State Farm Arena in Atlanta Georgia.
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The show headlined by the multi-award-winning megastar was going to be supported by several stars including Mayorkun, Stonebwoy, BNXN, Kizz Daniel, Pheelz, Lojay, and other artists.
However, in light of the recent painful loss of his son Ifeanyi Adeleke, the festival has been pushed back by 12 months as it’s now set to hold on November 18th, 2023.
The management made this revelation in a statement yesterday announcing the postponement.
“We have made the difficult but necessary decision to postpone A.W.A.Y Festival until Saturday, November 18, 2023.”
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The statement reads further;
“To all ticket buyers, your tickets will be honored for the 2023 date.
We understand that you must be disappointed but we promise to come back with a bigger and better show.
Thank you for understanding and we look forward to seeing you all in the near future.”
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Davido’s Instagram return
Singer Davido had made a quick return to Instagram to delete posts and unfollow accounts, days after the death of his only son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.
According to reports, Davido upon his return, made some adjustments to his Instagram profile, as he allegedly unfollowed DJ Cuppy, and his Billionaire father, Femi Otedola.
Davido who has 25.8M followers on his verified Instagram page and followed 16,777 people before the death of his son made changes as he unfollowed three (3) accounts from his followers.
His reasons for unfollowing Cuppy and her father are unknown to us but it was speculated that the popular Nigerian singer did so because the Otedola went ahead to celebrate his birthday while Davido was mourning his son, even though, they both sent their condolence messages to him.
Aside from unfollowing the duo, Davido deleted all his pinned posts; he also deleted his anticipated festival post, A.W.A.Y, which is slated to take place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on November 18, 2022.
