Ex-Osun LP guber candidate, Lasun Yusuf, joins PDP
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2022 Osun State governorship election, Rt. Hon. Lasun Suleiman Yusuf, has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State made the announcement of Lasun’s defection to the PDP on Wednesday at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Osogbo.
The rally is being attended by the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State; party’s national chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, and the PDP Presidential Campaign Council chairman, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, among other chieftains.
“The former deputy speaker has joined the PDP family. He used to be in PDP, but today, he has decided to come and join the PDP family,” the governor said.
Lasun, who was present at the rally, hailed supporters after a terse remark.
Lasun had contested the 2022 governorship election in Osun on the platform of the Labour Party (LP).
Adeleke came first in the election; Gboyega Oyetola of the APC placed second; Kehinde Atanda of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) came third; while Lasun came a distant fourth.
He was a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) until February when he resigned from the party after losing the party’s governorship ticket.
Lasun was deputy speaker from 2015 to 2019.
