{"id":17216,"date":"2023-12-27T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17216"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:28:09","slug":"governor-rotimi-akeredolu-bows-to-cold-hands-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17216","title":{"rendered":"Governor Rotimi Akeredolu Bows To Cold Hands Of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Governor of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gayekeepersnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatekeepers News<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> reports that the Presidency confirmed Akeredolu\u2019s demise and an official statement will be released soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Akeredolu, who became the Governor of Ondo in 2017, had announced his decision to embark on a medical leave on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, as a follow-up to his treatment and also handed over power to his deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aiyedatiwa will be sworn-in as the Governor following the death of Akeredolu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The deceased had previously embarked on three-month medical leave in Germany and returned to Nigeria to Nigeria on September 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After his return, he worked from Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, a working scenario that led to a political crisis in the State as Akeredolu\u2019s loyalists clashed with his deputy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There were also attempts to impeach the deputy Governor before and after Akeredolu\u2019s return to Nigeria at that time before the intervention of President Bola Tinubu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also, there were claims that Akeredolu\u2019s signature was forged on official documents due to his absence at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born on 21 July 1956, Akeredolu was a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and president of the Nigerian Bar Association in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[472,8256,982],"class_list":["post-17216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dead","tag-governor-rotimi-akeredolu","tag-ondo-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}