The respected politicians's defection to the APC was confirmed on
Thursday on Akure, the state capital: “It is true. He has moved to the
APC,” the Deputy Governor's press secretary confirmed.
Sources says Olanusi fell out with Governor Segun Mimiko over his
decision to move from the Labour Party to the PDP. In fact, so many
aides of Mimiko also disagreed with the switch from the Labour Party to
the PDP.
Mimiko had 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.
The political atmosphere in the state is tensed at the moment.
The respected Deputy Governor is scheduled to meet with the leaders of
the APC in Ondo State formally. 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.”