A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusola Ebiseni, has dumped the party and subsequently emerged as the Labour Party (LP) flagbearer for the November 2024 Ondo State governorship election.
Ebiseni described his defection to the Labour Party as a return back home.
Naija News reports a former commissioner for Youth and Sports in the state, Dayo Awude became the deputy governorship candidate.
Speaking to journalists in Akure, the state capital, Ebiseni flanked by members of the National Transition Committee (NTC) of the Labour Party, including Comrade Abdul Waheed Omar, Dr. Kingsley Okundaye, Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku, and Folu Bademosi, noted that his candidature was guided by the Electoral Act.
In his words, “I am back home. We will provide for the people of Ondo State. Every developmental project in the state was done by LP. What additional infrastructure that people of the state had. We have deputies supplanting their governor. We have come to heal the land. We have come to give the people of the state a fresh breath.”
He described the LP as one of the leading political parties in the country with an expectation of having a good outing at the polls.
On his plans for the state he said: “We shall take full advantage of the vast resources of our state in terms of large pool of quality human resources, our position as the 5th amongst the nine oil producing states and our littoral capabilities with the longest shoreline in Nigeria, colossal forest and agricultural resources, precious rocks and other solid minerals dotting the landscape and beneath the grounds, well trained and non-partisan Civil Service for the all-round development of our great state.
“I hereby yield to the call of the good people of Ondo State to offer myself for service on the platform of the Labour Party which symbol of a bonded family symbolic representation is incidentally a of the meaning of my name Ebiseni.
“Labour Party is not new to our state. It is a party in which my running mate and I and a vast majority of politicians across all political parties including many of us seated herein served the state in various capacities as revealed below.”