{"id":79851,"date":"2025-12-09T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79851"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:38:39","slug":"stop-singing-give-your-speech-remi-tinubu-tells-adeleke-in-ile-ife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/stop-singing-give-your-speech-remi-tinubu-tells-adeleke-in-ile-ife\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Singing, Give Your Speech,\u2019 Remi Tinubu Tells Adeleke in Ile-Ife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, on Sunday interrupted Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke during an event in Ile-Ife marking the 10th coronation anniversary of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi.<\/p>\n<p>Adeleke, known for his energetic dancing, had begun singing on stage when the First Lady approached him, saying: \u201cI\u2019m giving you five minutes to finish your speech. The music is enough.\u201d As he continued, she added: \u201cI will turn off the microphone. Stop the music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exchange, captured on video, has since stirred reactions online.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Tinubu, in her remarks, expressed optimism about the country\u2019s economic outlook, saying Nigeria would attain prosperity by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>She also thanked the Ooni for the honour bestowed on her and highlighted the achievements of her husband\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Adeleke recently resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and is weighing new political platforms ahead of the 2026 governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, on Sunday interrupted Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke during an event in Ile-Ife marking the 10th coronation anniversary of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. Adeleke, known for his energetic dancing, had begun singing on stage when the First Lady approached him, saying: \u201cI\u2019m giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":79852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79851","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\/79851","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79853,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79851\/revisions\/79853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}