2019: Kumuyi Joins Politics, Declares For Labour Party

A former Chief Judge of Ondo State, High Chief Olasehinde Kumuyi says he has joined active politics on the platform of the Labour Party(LP) more than a year after his retirement.

He declared that the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP that includes the PDP, Labour party and SDP was one of the major strategies to unseat the ruling APC during the 2019 general elections.

Speaking at a political gathering at his home town in Ogbagi-AkokoChief Kumuyi who retired in 2017, noted that the coalition would only work if selfish political gladiators dropped their unnecessary ambitions for national interest.

The former CJ, who is a traditional title holder in his town, said he joined politics on the Labour Party platform after his retirement in order to rescue the downtrodden and to facilitate development to Akoko area of the state which he described as the most marginalisedand backward part of Ondo state.

Chief Kumuyi who declared that over 1500 chieftains of the PDP and the APC including a PDP House of Assembly Aspirant for Akoko north west Constituency-2, Mr Oyebode Awe had defected to the Labour Party in Akoko North West Local Government Area, noting that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s administration had so far failed to live up to people’s expectations.

Former governor Olusegun Mimiko who was represented by his ex-deputy Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo expressed joy that well-meaning indigenes of the state like the former Chief Judge were joining the Labour Party, adding that many were working round the clock to defect to the party from the PDP and APC in Ondo state.

CUPP which is an alliance of 39 political parties including the PDP, SDP and Labour Party, was formed with the aim of wrestling power from the ruling APC in 2019 elections.