Adeola Yayi’s Birthday Post To Gbenga Daniel Disappears

On April 6, 2025, Senator Solomon Adeola joined the list of many well-wishers celebrating the 69th birthday of Senator Gbenga Daniel.

The politician famously known as Yayi made a special birthday post celebrating the former two-term Governor of Ogun State on behalf of his “family and good people of Ogun West Senatorial District.”

“Your life has been one of remarkable public service, visionary leadership, and enduring commitment to the growth and development of Ogun State and Nigeria at large. From your days as Executive Governor of our dear state to your current role in the Senate, you have continued to demonstrate wisdom, patriotism, and an unwavering dedication to the people,” Yayi wrote in a personally signed message.

But barely four days after, the birthday felicitation was removed—while birthday wishes to other persons, including the Asiwaju of Ijebuland, Adebola Adegunwa (posted before that of Senator Daniel), and Oba Akintunde Akinyemi (posted after), remain on Yayi’s Facebook page—Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, FCA.

The Senator made the post in a move interpreted by followers of political events in Ogun State as refusing to take sides in the raging political feud between fellow Senator Gbenga Daniel and Governor Dapo Abiodun.

Abiodun and Daniel are neck-deep in a supremacy tussle that has turned personal, amid raging claims that the Governor wants to take over the Ogun East Senatorial seat in the next political dispensation.

Daniel, who occupies the position, is already campaigning for a second term.

Adeola Yayi, who is a frontrunner aspirant in the race to determine the next Governor of Ogun State, is more publicly known as an Abiodun ally—although insiders insist he has a relationship that predates Abiodun becoming Governor with Daniel.

Adeola and his men are, however, silent on why he dropped the post celebrating Gbenga Daniel’s birthday from his Facebook page.

Gbenga Daniel, Dapo Abiodun, and Adeola Yayi are members of the same political party—the All Progressives Congress (APC).