Background
Ali was born at Supare Akoko, a town in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria.
Ali was born at Supare Akoko, a town in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria.
He attended Ansarudeen College, Ikare where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate.
Although he had no degree certificate, according to him “My greatest regret in life is that I am not a graduate. lieutenant 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”.
On 24 February 2009, he was elected as the deputy governor of Ondo State on the platform of the Labour Party and was re-elected again on the same platform on October 2012.
On Thursday October 26, 2015, he defected to the All Progressives Congress following the defection of the incumbent governor Olusegun Mimiko, who dumped the Labour Party to the People"s Democratic Party on Thursday October 2, 2014.