{"id":23559,"date":"2025-04-23T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23559"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:37:08","slug":"six-term-rep-oluwole-oke-dumps-pdp-tells-supporters-to-stand-by-for-next-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23559","title":{"rendered":"Six-Term Rep Oluwole Oke Dumps PDP, Tells Supporters to \u2018Stand By\u2019 for Next Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran lawmaker and six-term member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Oluwole Oke, has formally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ending decades-long ties with the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>Oke, who represents Obokun\/Oriade Federal Constituency in Osun State, made his exit official in a resignation letter dated April 16, 2025, and addressed to the PDP Ward 7 Chairman in Obokun Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development in a brief phone call on Wednesday, Oke told PUNCH Online, \u201cI have resigned from the PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he did not disclose his next political destination, Oke called on his loyalists and supporters to exit the party and await further instructions\u2014signaling that a major political move may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, he said, followed wide consultations with his political allies, friends, and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran lawmaker and six-term member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Oluwole Oke, has formally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ending decades-long ties with the opposition party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,10631,110,10630,4381],"class_list":["post-23559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-oluwole-oke","tag-pdp","tag-six-term-rep","tag-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559"}],"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=23559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23561,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559\/revisions\/23561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}