Ali Olanusi (born 28 February 1942) is a Nigerian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

, he was deputy governor of

Ondo State Ondo State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Oǹdó) is a state in southwestern Nigeria. It was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It borders Ekiti State to the north, Kogi State to the northeast, Edo State to the east, Delta State to ...

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from February 2009 till his impeachment in April 2015.

Early life

Ali Olanusi was born in

Supare Akoko Supare-Akoko, is a town in Akoko South West Local Government Area in Ondo State in southwestern Nigeria. Supare is about 100 km from Akure, the state capital. It has predominantly rain forest with heavy presence of high undulating rocky and ...

, a town in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria. He attended Ansarudeen College,

Ikare Ikare is a city in the northern senatorial part of Ondo State, Nigeria. Ikare-Akoko (Ikare for short), city in southwestern Nigeria, is located in the Northern Senatorial District of Ondo State. Ikare is about 100km from Akure, the Ondo State cap ...

where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate. On completion of his secondary education, he was employed as a teacher at modern school in Ogbagi, Ondo State but left the school to join the services of

Lagos State Ministry of Transport The Lagos State Ministry of Transport is the government ministry responsible for transportation in Lagos State, Nigeria. In 1984, under the administration of Governor Gbolahan Mudasiru, the Ministry of Transportation was merged with the Ministry ...

. Although he had no degree certificate, according to him “My greatest regret in life is that I am not a graduate. It is the fact that I did not have a degree certificate from any university within or outside Nigeria. However, I don’t have inferiority complex”.

Political life

He began his political career as a member of the

Unity Party of Nigeria The Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) was a Nigerian political party that was dominant in western Nigeria during the second republic (1978-1983). The party revolved around the political leadership of Obafemi Awolowo, a sometimes polemical politician ...

before he joined the

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and was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party. On 24 February 2009, he was sworn in as the deputy governor of

on the platform of the Labour Party after the previous deputy governor Omolade Oluwateru's reelection was notified by a Court of Appeal. He was re-elected again on the same platform in October 2012. On Thursday 26 March 2015, he defected to the All Progressives Congress having previously defected with governor

Olusegun Mimiko Olusegun Rahman Mimiko ( yo, Olúṣẹ́gun Mímikò ; born 3 October 1954), is a Nigerian doctor and politician, he was the senatorial candidate of the Zenith Labour Party for Ondo Central District in the 2019 Senate elections. He served as ...

from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party in October 2014. He was impeached by the Ondo State House of Assembly on 27 April 2015, following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress a month earlier. His impeachment was nullified by a Court of Appeal on 24 March 2017.

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