{"id":60226,"date":"2025-01-30T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60226"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:35:19","slug":"aregbesolas-expulsion-omoluabi-progressives-exit-shake-osun-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/30\/aregbesolas-expulsion-omoluabi-progressives-exit-shake-osun-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Aregbesola\u2019s Expulsion, Omoluabi Progressives\u2019 Exit Shake Osun APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osun State\u2019s political landscape is witnessing a major shift following the expulsion of former Governor Rauf Aregbesola from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the exit of the Omoluabi Progressives faction.<\/p>\n<p>While some residents see this as a step toward political clarity, others fear potential instability.<\/p>\n<p>The APC has dismissed the Omoluabi Progressives&#8217; departure, with its Osun Director of Media, Kola Olabisi, calling it \u201cgood riddance to bad rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Aregbesola\u2019s supporters argue that his contributions to the party are being overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Amid speculations of political realignments ahead of the 2026 governorship election, Aregbesola has vowed to provide leadership that will elevate Osun State.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has extended an invitation to the departing faction, further fueling discussions on Osun\u2019s evolving political dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Osun State\u2019s political landscape is witnessing a major shift following the expulsion of former Governor Rauf Aregbesola from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the exit of the Omoluabi Progressives faction. While some residents see this as a step toward political clarity, others fear potential instability. The APC has dismissed the Omoluabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60228,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions\/60228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}