The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.
According to the Chief Press Secretary, Daisi Ajayi, “It is true. “He has moved to the APC.”
The Eagle Online 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.
The reasons for his defection are sketchy but it was gathered that the cracks in his relationship with his boss, Governor Olusegun Mimiko started when the governor defected from the Labour Party to the People’s Democratic Party.
It was learnt that the defection of Mimiko didn’t go down well with Olanusi and their aides.
It will be recalled that Olanusi was then the chairman of PDP in Ondo under the regime of the Mimiko’s former boss, late Governor Olusegun Agagu. Mimiko had poached Olanusi from PDP and made him his running mate.
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 in coming hours.
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 best interest of peace, stability and good governance of our dear state and overall development of the south west and the nation.”
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