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Just as the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), gets set to kick-off, a former Deputy Speaker- House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuf, on Friday morning tendered his resignation from the ruling party.
He submitted his resignation letter at the APC Secretariat, Ogo Oluwo Osogbo.
Yusuf was a former gubernatorial aspirant of APC in 2018.
He also aspired to be the gubernatorial candidate of the party in the party’s recently concluded primary election where he came in a distant third position behind Moshood Adeoti and the eventual winner and Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola.
He submitted his resignation letter this morning at the APC Secretariat, Ogo Oluwo Osogbo.
Yusuf represented the Irepodun/Olurunda/Osogbo/Orolu Federal Constituency of Osun State.
The former Deputy Speaker is a grassroots politician widely known in Osun State and he is fondly called The Homeboy due to his grassroots qualities.
He was once a youth leader in the Unity Party of Nigeria UPN.
Yusuf was also the state public relations officer PRO of the Alliance for Democracy before and during Chief Bisi Akande’s administration.
With his undiluted loyalty and the unquantifiable role played in the Alliance of Democracy AD and his doggedness in the political cycle in the state the governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola appointed him chairman of Osun State Capital Territory Development Authority OSCTDA in 2004 / 2005, a body established by law with a mandate to facilitate the urban growth of Osogbo and neighbouring towns.
In 2011, he ran for a legislative seat in the [7th National Assembly] as the representative of the Irepodun/Olurunda/Osogbo/Orolu Federal Constituency.
He won on the platform of [Action Congress of Nigeria], which joined the [All Progressives Congress] with other parties in the run-up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria.