APC elders say Lasun disloyal for emerging Deputy Speaker

Osun State elders’ council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Lasun Yusuf who hails from the state, as a disloyal party member for accepting to participate in the election at the House.
The elders in a communiqué signed by the Secretary of the APC Elders Council, Mr. Felix Awofisayo and a member of the council, Chief Gbadegesin Adedeji on Wednesday noted that the Deputy Speaker, who represents Osogbo/Olorunda/Irepodun/Orolu Federal Constituency allowed his personal interest to move him against the party.

While condemning Yusuf’s alleged action which they described as betrayal, the party leaders asserted that such action should not be allowed to go unpunished.

The communiqué reads in part, “The acceptance of the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives by Hon. Lasun Yusuf is not only a despicable act of betrayal and disloyalty to the party, but also a breach and negation of our party’s directive on the issue.
“Hon. Lasun Yusuf allowed himself to be overwhelmed and driven by admixture of personal interest and valuing ambition detrimental to the progress and stability of the party that nurtured him and on whose platform he was elected in the first place.
“His action, if allowed to remain, is capable of promoting indiscipline and elevating treachery and rebellion to an art.

“We condemn this anti-party tendency on the part of Hon. Lasun Yusuf without reservation and we herby dissociate ourselves from it”.

The elders, who went on to pledge their support and loyalty to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, advised him to continue with his effort to develop the state, saying, “when the going is tough the tough gets going.”