The Minister of Interior and former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregebsola has traveled to Germany for a national assignment and therefore not present at the ongoing Osun 2022 governorship election.
A media aide to Aregbesola, Sola Fasure, while Speaking on the development, said ‘Oga didn’t come home for the election.’
Fasure, however, refused to comment further on the reasons his boss did not participate in the Osun Governorship Election.
Meanwhile, another source very close to the minister, who commented on condition of anonymity revealed that he (Aregbesola) moved to Germany yesterday (Friday) to represent federal government at an anti-money laundering and a counter-terrorism financing meeting hosted by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) which commences today (Saturday).
The source said “He is not missing in action, he has a national assignment to attend to in Germany; he travelled on Friday. Not much changed, in his home state, his family participated in the election, they fried Akara and shared to people as he would have done if he were around.”
Recall that the Minister of Interior and the incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola had had misunderstanding over unresolved political differences.
Aregbesola, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC was expected to be in Ilesa, his hometown, to cast his vote at Ward 8, polling unit 1, but the former governor was no where to be found.
