{"id":46371,"date":"2018-09-26T06:04:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46371"},"modified":"2018-09-26T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:05:03","slug":"breaking-atiku-steps-up-pdps-charm-offensive-visits-omisore-in-osogbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46371","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Atiku Steps Up PDP\u2019s Charm Offensive, Visits Omisore In Osogbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2234577%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Breaking%20bannner%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BREAKING-Court-Restrains-The-Police-From-Arresting-Adeleke.jpg\" title=\"Breaking bannner\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Atiku Abubakar, presidential aspirant and former Vice President, is the latest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwig to visit Iyiola Omisore, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP), in furtherance of the opposition\u2019s party charm offensive towards convincing their formal ally to work for them.<\/p>\n<p>Until May, Omisore was in the PDP, but he left after it was clear the party\u2019s power brokers had settled to hand the governorship ticket to Ademola Adeleke, brother of the late Isiaka Adele, who had himself defected to the PDP after the All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to hand him the ticket for the senatorial bye-election to replace his brother, who had died in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Saturday\u2019s election inconclusive and fixed a rerun for Thursday, PDP leaders \u2014 notably Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, and Abiodun Olujimi, the Senator representing Ekiti South at the National Assembly \u2014 have been visiting Omisore in Osun State in a bid to convince him to pass on his supporters to PDP, a scenario that would likely bring Omisore\u2019s former party, and Adeleke his political adversary, to power.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the meeting are not yet public, but a source who was privy to it told SaharaReporters: \u201cAtiku had first of all spoken to him on the phone yesterday, but the former Vice President travelled to Osogbo this afternoon to physically meeting with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t tell you specifically what went down at the meeting but I can generally tell you that it was all about convincing Omisore to work for the APC ahead of the rerun. Some offers have been made but we\u2019d see how it goes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, presidential aspirant and former Vice President, is the latest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwig to visit Iyiola Omisore, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP), in furtherance of the opposition\u2019s party charm offensive towards convincing their formal ally to work for them. Until May, Omisore was in the PDP, but he left after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4148],"class_list":["post-46371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-atiku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}