{"id":71084,"date":"2025-07-21T00:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71084"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:11:40","slug":"tinubu-credits-2023-victory-to-awujales-blessings-predicts-2027-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/21\/tinubu-credits-2023-victory-to-awujales-blessings-predicts-2027-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Credits 2023 Victory to Awujale\u2019s Blessings, Predicts 2027 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has attributed his 2023 election victory to the blessings of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, and expressed confidence in securing a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the eight-day Fidau prayer held at Dipo Dina Stadium, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Tinubu recalled the monarch\u2019s prophetic support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God that I stand before you as president. I was successful because of your support and the blessing of the late Awujale. He told me, \u2018O o tun wole ekan si\u2019 (you will win a second term),\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p>He described Adetona as a symbol of conscience and dignity, lauding his contribution to the June 12 struggle and commending Governor Dapo Abiodun for supporting the monarch until his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, who conferred the GCON award on Adetona during his 90th birthday last year, said he was grateful for celebrating the monarch while alive and urged Nigerians to emulate his values.<\/p>\n<p>Oba Adetona died hours after the passing of his longtime friend, former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola President Bola Tinubu has attributed his 2023 election victory to the blessings of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, and expressed confidence in securing a second term. Speaking at the eight-day Fidau prayer held at Dipo Dina Stadium, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Tinubu recalled the monarch\u2019s prophetic support. \u201cI thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71084","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=71084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71086,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71084\/revisions\/71086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}