The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.
Olanusi’s defection was confirmed to by his Chief Press Secretary, Daisi Ajayi.
Ajayi told The Eagle Online in a telephone interview on Thursday: “It is true.
“He has moved to the APC.”
It was gathered that Olanusi fell out with his boss, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, over his decision to move from the Labour Party to the PDP.
So many aides of Mimiko also disagreed with the switch from the Labour Party to the PDP.
Mimiko pulled a masterstroke on his former boss, late Governor Olusegun Agagu, when he pulled out Olanusi from the PDP and announced him as his running mate on the platform of the Labour Party.
Olanusi was then the Chairman of the PDP in Ondo State.
Agagu was elected on the platform of the PDP.
With Mimiko’s decision to move to the PDP from the Labour Party, several of his lieutenants disagreed with him.
It was also learnt that Olanusi may have dropped his resignation letter as deputy governor.
He is scheduled to meet with the leaders of the APC in Ondo State any minute from now.
In a press statement he personally signed, Olanusi said: “In the unfolding development in our country today and in Ondo state in particular, it is increasingly clear that I need to chart a new course for majority of my followers who looked up to me for direction and leadership and who watched helplessly in the last six years the untold marginalisation and total exclusion from the government they laboured to out in place.
“While still in place as the democratically deputy governor of Ondo state, I have decided to lead my teeming supporters and well wishers in the state into All Progressives Congress, APC, where we can find fairness, justice, equity and democratic liberty to which majority of our kith and kins in Yorubaland belong.
“I have taken this decision at this crucial time in the beat interest of peace, stability and good governance of our dear state and overall development of the south west and the nation.” Eagle online
