Tag: Aregbesola

Osinbajo, Dogara others out as Amaechi, Aregbesola make Tinubu’s 422 Presidential campaign team

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Following weeks of anxiety and serial postponements, the presidential campaign council list of the flagbearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was released with several notable names of party chieftains missing. The 422-man list has names of political heavyweights including APC governors, ministers, lawmakers, ambassadors as well as serving and past public office holders. In the latest list released by the Presidential Campaign Council Secretary, James Faleke, in Abuja on Friday night, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, retained his position as Director-General just as Deputy Director-General (Operations),…

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Aregbesola promises to sustain Osun Osogbo Festival

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Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has promised to sustain the state government’s support for the popular Osun Osogbo cultural event to ensure its sustainability and growth. Aregbesola was represented by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr Olawale Adebisi at the festival where  monarchs, devotees, masqueraders as well as traditional religion worshippers paid homage to the host of the festival and Ataoja of Osogboland, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, at the Osun-Osogbo grove. Aregbesola said the festival provides the largest platform for tradition and culture to be exhibited. “It is also the largest gathering…

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