Rauf Aregebsola, the interior minister and former governor of Osun State, has left for a national assignment in Germany and is currently Absent from the Osun 2022 governorship election. Sola Fasure, Aregbesola's media assistant, commented on the situation by saying, "Oga didn't come home for the election." However, he chose not to elaborate on the reasons why his principal abstained from the Osun Governorship Election.
The former governor of Osun State traveled to Germany yesterday (Friday), according to a source close to him who spoke to Prime9jaOnlineMedia under the condition of anonymity and revealed that the conference was organized by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and is scheduled to take place on Monday in Germany. The source responded to claims that Aregbesola was presumed dead in Osun by saying, "He is not missing in action; he has a national job to attend to in Germany. He traveled on Friday. Little changed; his family still took part in the election in his own state and still fried Akara and distributed it to others as they would have done if he had been present.
Remember how the Interior Minister and the departing Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, had a fall out over unresolved political issues? Aregbesola, a senior member of the government's All Progressives Congress, was scheduled to be in his hometown of Ilesa to cast his vote at Ward 8 Polling Unit 1, but the former governor did not appear. He also skipped the APC mega event, which was attended by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party's 2023 presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, and a number of governors who support progressive causes.