 in the 2022 Osun State governorship election, Rt. Hon. Lasun Suleiman Yusuf, has joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).){kind=link}
Governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2022 Osun State governorship election, Rt. Hon. Lasun Suleiman Yusuf, has joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State announced Lasun’s defection to the PDP on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at the Party’s presidential campaign rally in Osogbo.
Lasun was elected to the House of Representatives for a second time on the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) platform in March 2015.
He was elected the Deputy Speaker of the 8th House of Representatives by 203 members of the House of Representatives out of the 357 that participated in the in-house election. Yakubu Dogara was elected as the Speaker.
Lasun then decamped from the All Progressive Congress to the People’s Democratic Party on 15 September 2018.