Agboola Ajayi, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, has joined the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
Ajayi made the announcement at an event held at the state secretariat of the party in Akure, the state capital, on Friday.
This is the deputy governor’s third party in months, having been a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Addressing a crowd of party faithful at the event, Ajayi said he is happy to join ZLP and is confident that the party would win the forthcoming governorship election.
He appealed to all loyalists of the party not to cause rancour but be united and work for the party’s success in the poll.
Ajayi was received into the ZLP fold by the state party chairman, Joseph Akinlaja, and other leaders of the party in the state.
Speaking earlier, Akinlaja told the deputy governor that the ZLP members in Ondo State were happy to receive him and his teeming supporters across the state into the party.
He stated that if the governorship election conducted under a free and fair atmosphere, ZLP would win convincingly.
The party chairman also disclosed that the official declaration of Ajayi as the ZLP governorship election would take place later.
Ajayi’s defection to the ZLP is in line with his resolve to contest the 10 October governorship election in the state, having being denied the ticket in both the APC and PDP.
