{"id":60379,"date":"2025-02-03T06:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60379"},"modified":"2025-02-03T06:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:50:48","slug":"mend-fence-with-tinubu-oke-urges-aregbesola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/03\/mend-fence-with-tinubu-oke-urges-aregbesola\/","title":{"rendered":"Mend Fence with Tinubu, Oke Urges Aregbesola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Bisola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oluwole Oke, the lawmaker representing Obokun\/Oriade Federal Constituency in Osun State, has advised former Governor Rauf Aregbesola to reconcile with President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post on Sunday, Oke urged Aregbesola to set aside differences and seek peace with his former political ally.<\/p>\n<p>Oke\u2019s call comes amid heightened political tensions in Osun, particularly following the decision of Aregbesola\u2019s faction, the Omoluabi Progressives, to break away from the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The split is linked to longstanding disagreements with the mainstream APC, fueled by Aregbesola\u2019s feud with his successor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and reports of a fallout with Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were in his shoes, I would go and beg, prostrate, and make peace with my principal, PBAT [President Bola Ahmed Tinubu],\u201d Oke stated, emphasizing that reconciliation is more beneficial than prolonged conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging Aregbesola\u2019s significant political influence, Oke also suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could take advantage of the APC\u2019s internal discord.<\/p>\n<p>He described Aregbesola as a political \u201cbride\u201d in Osun and urged the PDP to act decisively if they hope to win him over.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ongoing rift, Oke predicted that Aregbesola will remain a key figure in Osun politics, regardless of his political alignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Bisola Oluwole Oke, the lawmaker representing Obokun\/Oriade Federal Constituency in Osun State, has advised former Governor Rauf Aregbesola to reconcile with President Bola Tinubu. In a social media post on Sunday, Oke urged Aregbesola to set aside differences and seek peace with his former political ally. Oke\u2019s call comes amid heightened political tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60379","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=60379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60381,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60379\/revisions\/60381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}