{"id":82063,"date":"2026-01-23T14:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82063"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:17:40","slug":"fayose-narrates-what-truly-happened-during-makinde-tinubu-meeting-at-aso-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/23\/fayose-narrates-what-truly-happened-during-makinde-tinubu-meeting-at-aso-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayose Narrates \u2018What Truly Happened\u2019 During Makinde-Tinubu Meeting at Aso Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu firmly rebuffed Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, during his visit to the Presidential Villa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released after the meeting, Fayose alleged that Makinde was unable to meet the President alone and sought the support of Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang. He claimed Tinubu told Makinde he was only willing to discuss official matters concerning Oyo State, not political issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fayose, the President cautioned Makinde against taking different positions in private and public, especially on political matters. He further alleged that Tinubu made it clear he was not relying on Makinde\u2019s support ahead of the 2027 general election and reaffirmed his support for his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose also claimed the President dismissed Makinde\u2019s reported differences with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, describing them as personal issues.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor concluded by questioning the handling of federal intervention funds reportedly released to Oyo State after the January 2023 Ibadan explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu firmly rebuffed Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, during his visit to the Presidential Villa on Thursday. In a statement released after the meeting, Fayose alleged that Makinde was unable to meet the President alone and sought the support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82063","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\/82063","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=82063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82065,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82063\/revisions\/82065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}