{"id":70812,"date":"2025-07-17T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70812"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:18:09","slug":"omisore-mocks-adeleke-over-alleged-move-to-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/omisore-mocks-adeleke-over-alleged-move-to-join-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Omisore Mocks Adeleke Over Alleged Move to Join APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former APC National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has ridiculed Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, over his alleged plan to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the governor lacks popularity and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Politics Today on Channels TV, Omisore claimed Adeleke is \u201crunning around begging to join APC\u201d because he is unpopular in Osun.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that while defection is allowed, \u201che must do it properly,\u201d noting that neither the state nor national APC leadership is aware of Adeleke\u2019s move.<\/p>\n<p>Omisore accused the governor of reneging on political agreements in the past, citing failed alliances in 2014, 2018, and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Adeleke is truly popular, let him remain in the PDP and face us in 2026. Anyone with the APC ticket will win Osun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Adeleke&#8217;s 2022 victory was not based on real popularity and criticized his alleged attempt to use influence from Ogun and Abuja to force his way into the APC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Former APC National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has ridiculed Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, over his alleged plan to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the governor lacks popularity and integrity. Speaking on Politics Today on Channels TV, Omisore claimed Adeleke is \u201crunning around begging to join APC\u201d because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70812","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70814,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70812\/revisions\/70814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}