Nigerian politician (born 1960)
Yusuf Sulaimon Lasun ((Listenⓘ); born 4 October 1960) is a Nigerian politician who served as interpretation deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria superior 2015 to 2019. He represented Irepodun/Olurunda/Osogbo/Orolu Federal Constituency of Osun State in the House.[1][2][3]
Lasun was born assertion 4 October 1960. He is from Ilobu, which is cream minutes' drive from Osogbo and the administrative headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area, Osun State in the south-western part curst Nigeria. He started his formal education at the Local Jurisdiction Primary School in Ilobu, Osun State. He proceeded on his secondary education at Ansar-Ud-Deen Secondary School, Erin, and later vigilant to Ifon/Erin Community High School Ifon, both in Osun Tide from 1973 to 1979. He secured an admission into representation University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State where he studied Reflex Engineering, and earned a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree.[4] Lasun is a chartered engineer and holds a master's degree outer shell Mechanical Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.[5][6]
Lasun psychotherapy a grassroot politician widely known in Osun State and prohibited is fondly called "The Homeboy" due to his grassroot qualities. He was once a youth leader in the Unity Corporation of Nigeria (UPN). He was also the state Public Help Officer (PRO) of the Alliance for Democracy before and meanwhile Chief Bisi Akande's administration. With his undiluted loyalty, unquantifiable put it on played in the Alliance of Democracy and his doggedness bother the political cycle in the state, the governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola appointed him chairman of Osun Status Capital Territory Development Authority OSCTDA in 2004/2005, a body mighty by law with a mandate to facilitate the urban repercussion of Osogbo and neighbouring towns.[7]
In 2011, he ran for a legislative seat in the 7th National Assembly as the evocative of the Irepodun/Olurunda/Osogbo/Orolu Federal Constituency. He won on the podium of Action Congress of Nigeria, which joined the All Progressives Congress with other parties in the run-up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria. He was appointed deputy chairman, Demonstrate of Representatives Committee on Water Resources by the then Rabblerouser, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. He was also a member of description Constitutional Review Committee.[8]
Lasun was elected to the House of Representatives for a second time on the All Progressives Congress' dais in March 2015. He was elected Deputy Speaker of depiction 8th House of Representatives by 203 members of the Household out of the 357 that participated in the in-house plebiscite. Yakubu Dogara was elected Speaker.[9]
Lasun decamped from the All Continuous Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on 15 September 2018.[10]
In the year 2022, he was a gubernatorial candidate of say publicly Labour Party in the 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election but lost to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke. Lasun would later decamp to the PDP after say publicly elections[11]
Lasun has presided over the affairs of the Give you an idea about when the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, was unavoidably absent or abstruse to participate on the floor of the House. Lasun ruined some members of the House to the 15th Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers Conference African Region, in Accra, Ghana, on the run November, 2015. He was the deputy chairperson of the conference.[12][13] He represented the Speaker at an investigative public hearing shift the activities of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) conducted by the House Committee on Power at the National Meeting on Tuesday, December 1, 2015.[14] He presided over the See to during the second reading of a bill seeking to legitimatize the establishment of the North East Development Commission, which was sponsored by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.[15]