A former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has paid a visit to former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and renowned cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare in Lagos. In a tweet on Sunday, El-Rufai’s media adviser, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye wrote: ‘Malam Nasir @elrufai was in Lagos today to visit Ogbeni @raufaregbesola and Pastor Tunde Bakare’. The visit to Lagos came …

The National leader of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Saturday met with the former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. Details of what the two men discussed at the meeting held at Aregbesola’s Lagos residence could not be immediately ascertained. But sources in the Osun State chapter of the NNPP, who preferred to remain anonymous since he …

Former Minister of Interior and ex-Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday met a man who allegedly attempted to assassinate him in 2006. He said the meeting was held after the man identified as Sikiru Olaboye sought forgiveness from him. Aregbesola disclosed this in a Facebook post on Sunday, stating that the man visited him after calling a local …

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it is not disturbed by the decision of the Omoluabi Progressives, a political group led by former governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to quit the party. According to a statement in Osogbo, the state capital on Sunday, the group’s Organising and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Oluwaseun …

The Omoluabi Progressives, a political group led by ex-Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said its members have resolved to quit the All Progressives Congress (APC). A statement by the Organising and Publicity Secretary, Omoluabi Progressives, Oluwaseun Abosede, obtained in Osogbo, stated that the decision to quit APC was the consensus of the stakeholders in the group. Abosede said the …

Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola – remember him? I would not have needed to ask this sort of “foolish question”, as it were, but for the fact that, in this our obodo NIgeria, yesterday’s men of power and influence soon become today’s inconsequentials, hardly noticed or remembered by anyone anymore! Yesterday, they could make anyone an instant millionaire or billionaire or …

Former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has been disowned by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the state council of the party Mr. Tajudeen Lawal made this known in a communiqué after yesterday’s stakeholders meeting at the state secretariat in Osogbo. The chairman said the former minister of interior had committed various anti-party activities, including …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has sued the former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola before a Federal High Court in Osogbo for allegedly causing a faction within the party. The APC, through its counsel Ayodele Kusamotu, Yemi Akingbade, R.I.O Oloyede and B.J Nwayen, asked the court to declare that the former minister of Interior cannot validly lead suspended …

The immediate past Minister of Interior and ex-Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has told his supporters that before the end of the year 2024, they would know where his interest in Osun politics lies. Aregbesola spoke in Ilesa, Osun State at an end-of-the-year thanksgiving organised by the Omoluabi Caucus, attended by many leaders of the group across the state. A …

As Osun State clocks 32 years on 27th August, a publishing outfit, The Erudio Alphabet Company, is set to release an epochal book on its evolution formally. Titled Courage and Character: The Definitive History of Osun State, the 460-page coffee table book recounts the history of the struggle of the people for their state till military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, …