December 07, (THEWILL) – A former gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the July 16, 2022, election in Osun State, Yusuf Lasun, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
His defection was announced on Wednesday, by Governor Ademola Adeleke, during the party’s presidential campaign rally in Osogbo.
Lasun, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, was officially welcomed to the PDP by the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu and other party chieftains.
The former lawmaker, who was previously a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had dumped the party in March, ahead of the Osun governorship election.
His exit from the APC came after he lost the party’s governorship ticket to the then incumbent Governor of Osun, Gboyega Oyetola, at a primary election in February.
Lasun subsequently joined Labour Party and contested in the July 16, 2022, governorship election but lost to PDP’s Ademola Adeleke.
