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Ondo State Deputy Governor Joins APC by kennyamusan(m): 4:33pm On Mar 26, 2015
The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Ali
Olanusi, who defected from the Peoples
Democratic Party Thursday morning, has
given reason for his action.
In a statement Thursday afternoon, Mr.
Olanusi said he decided to join the All
Progressives Congress after realising that the
party offers a platform where he can find
justice, fairness and equity.
He said, “While still being in place as the
democratically elected Deputy Governor of
Ondo State, I have decided to lead my
teeming supporters and well wishers in the
state into the All Progressive Congress
(APC) where we can find justice, fairness,
equity and democratic liberty, a party to
which majority of our kith and kins in
Yorubaland belongs.
“I have taken this decision at this critical
time, in the best interest of peace, stability
and good governance of our dear state and
for the overall development of the South
West and the nation.”
“They (his followers) have watched
helplessly in the last six years years the
untold marginalisation and total exclusion
from the government they laboured to put in
place.”
In his response to the development, the Ondo
State Commissioner for Information, Kayode
Akinmade, said, “The state government just
received the news of the defection of Alhaji
Ali Olanusi, the Deputy Governor of Ondo
State, to the All Progressives Congress.
“Though it came as a surprise, government
acknowledge his right to determine his
political affiliation and wish him well.”
Mr. Olanusi is said to have had a frosty
relationship with Governor Olusegun
Mimiko for sometime.
He ran with Mr. Mimiko on the platform of
the Labour Party in 2007, becoming deputy
governor in 2009 after the Court of Appeal
declared Mr. Mimiko winner of the disputed 2007
governorship election in the state.
He ran again with Mr. Mimiko on the platform of the same
party in 2014.
In October 2014, the governor and his deputy defected to
the PDP.
Mr. Olanusi’s defection came less than a week after the
Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, left the APC
for the PDP.

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