July 03, (THEWILL) – The ongoing war between the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his former ‘godson,’ the former governor of the State of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, may soon come to an end. The Oni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has stepped in for the second time to broker peace between the warring parties. The royal father was in Abuja last weekend to meet with the two parties behind closed doors, but they didn’t arrive at a logical end before the meeting ended.
It was gathered that another meeting will take place when Tinubu returns from France. This is not the first time that the traditional ruler will be making efforts to reconcile Tinubu and Aregbesola. The first reconciliation move took place in March before the unfortunate demise of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. The two Yoruba monarchs made efforts to settle the rift between the Minister of Interior, Aregbesola and Tinubu. Aregbesola had a closed door meeting with the two monarchs but Tinubu was not in attendance. The presidential candidate claimed he wasn’t invited to the meeting and kept away from the peace keeping mission.
The cold war between the two began brewing after Adegboyega Oyetola, the incumbent governor of Osun State, reversed some policies implemented by Aregbesola during his tenure. Aregbesola felt betrayed that his former Chief of Staff would make some moves that would turn the people of the state against him, he therefore made a vow not to support Oyetola’s second term bid. He anointed Moshood Adeoti, the former Secretary to the state government as his own candidate, a move that his political godfather, Tinubu was not pleased with.
Tinubu felt betrayed that Aregbesola, who was his political ‘godson’, would turn his back against his anointed candidate (Aregbesola). The rift however turned to an open friction during the APC primaries when Aregbesola openly accused Tinubu of placing himself in the position of God in the party.
