Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2023 election, popularly known as Jandor, has said that he had no hand in Chief Bode George leaving the party.
Jandor disclosed this in an interview on Arise Television today.
He said, “I did not expel them because I have no power to do so; I would rather say they expelled themselves when they declared for another party during the 2023 electioneering process. There is evidence on national TV both for the presidential and gubernatorial elections.
“When a supposed leader of a political party goes on national TV to say, ‘Don’t vote for the candidate of my party, irrespective of what it is, it shows that the leader has gone to the other party.
“If the party they supported had won, they would have been part of the government today. I don’t have the power, and they never said they’d be expelled; they did it themselves.
“What we’re saying is that because you’ve declared openly, you have no say in this party,” he said.
Recall that Jandor, earlier, had said that leaders of the party who supported candidates of other parties during the 2023 elections were no longer members of the party.
Jandor stated this in a State of the Nation address, where he claimed to have become the leader of the Lagos state chapter of PDP.
Jandor came in third in the governorship election, behind Labour Party’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Jandor claimed that it was a regular occurrence for the party leaders to betray the party in elections, as it has happened several times in the past.
The governorship candidate reiterated that working against the party has been the stock in trade of those party leaders, recalling that in the 2019 election, the same group declared support for ADP against PDP and also worked for the Labour Party in the 2017 local government election.
(Vanguard)
