{"id":9134,"date":"2023-12-28T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/akeredolu-ive-lost-a-friend-of-40-years-osinbajo-mourns\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:05:15","slug":"akeredolu-ive-lost-a-friend-of-40-years-osinbajo-mourns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/akeredolu-ive-lost-a-friend-of-40-years-osinbajo-mourns\/","title":{"rendered":"Akeredolu: I\u2019ve lost a friend of 40 years \u2013 Osinbajo mourns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has wept over the passing of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>Osinbajo, in a post he shared on X on Thursday morning, said he has lost a brother and friend of over 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that Akeredolu died on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, following a protracted illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDolly and I express our sincere condolence to Her Excellency Betty Akeredolu, children, family, friends, associates of HE Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu @rotimiaketi and the government and people of Ondo State on his passing,\u201d the former VP wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have lost a brother and friend of over 40 years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAketi was bold, courageous, forthright, fair-minded, kind and God fearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe firmly believed in our democracy, in Justice and the rule of law. He loved the people of Ondo State and was passionate about their security and economic advancement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray that the Almighty God will comfort the family and people of Ondo State on this great loss. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSun re o Aketi Baba!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akeredolu: I\u2019ve lost a friend of 40 years \u2013 Osinbajo mourns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has wept over the passing of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. Osinbajo, in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4544,15,7783],"tags":[4545,180,7784],"class_list":["post-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akeredolu","category-news","category-osinbajo","tag-akeredolu","tag-news","tag-osinbajo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}