In what appeared to be strategic moves ahead of the 2019 political race in Ogun state, the former Minister of Mines and Steel Development and the Secretary to Ogun state government during the administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Alhaji Sarafa Tunji Ishola has set to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in the state.
Sarafa who recently contested for National deputy Chairman in the Peoples Democratic party's national convention had been in talks with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Osoba and other south west leaders of APC for some time.
Sarafa, according to the information gathered by Newspaper Online, is closely working with the Ogun governorship aspirant, Senator Olamilekan Adeola popularly known as Yayi.
Sarafa Tunji Isola who was born on 25 November 1960 obtained a Diploma in Marketing from the
Chartered Institute of Marketing,
London . He became a lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Katsina in 1983. He joined the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation,
Abeokuta in 1986.
From 1997 to 1998 he was Chairman of the Abeokuta North Local Government Council. He was appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of State, Finance (1999–2003) and was Secretary to the Ogun State Government (2003–2007).
Isola was among Ogun State leaders who fell out with the state governor,
Otunba Gbenga Daniel. In March 2007, shortly before the next national elections, the governor was looking for help in resolving difference with former Minister of State for Finance Jubril-Martins Kuye , Ogun Central Senator
Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello and State Secretary Alhaji Sarafa Tunji Ishola.
President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed Sarafa Tunji Isola as Minister of Mines and Steel Development on the 26 of July 2007.
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