Determined to realise his ambition of governing Osun State, Hon. Lasun Yusuf, former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, during the week defected to the Labour Party (LP) to enable him to contest the July 16 governorship election.
Nationnewslead assembled that the former All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant told his supporters that it was compulsory for his name to be on the list of gubernatorial candidates in the state this year.
Sources claimed that majority of those Lasun called to a stakeholders’ meeting before joining the Labour Party actually told him to forget the idea of winning this year’s election in the state on the platform of any other party outside APC or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “But Honourable told us that he must contest the governorship election this time around,’ a source told NNL.
Yusuf was immediately affirmed by the party as its governorship candidate same day he joined the Labour Party in Osogbo. With that, he appears ready to actualize his dream of being a governorship candidate this year.
He had earlier resigned from the APC on March 25 after losing the governorship primary election to Governor Gboyega Oyetola on February 19.
During the direct primary, Yusuf scored 460 votes, while Moshood Adeoti, preferred candidate of the Minister of Interior and former Governor in Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, scored 12,921.
“If I emerge victoriously, my administration will focus on subsidizing education, farming, infrastructure, health, and exploitation of mineral resources,” he said after being handed the governorship ticket of his new party.
Lasun immediately picked Mr. Adeola Atanda, from Iwo as his running mate. Continue Reading