BREAKING: Jandor dumps Lagos PDP

The 2023 Lagos governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Olajide Adediran (JANDOR) has resigned from the party, saying that his next move would be known in few months.

He added that he was dumping the party along with his supporters across the 20 local governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the state.

Adediran disclosed this on Monday at an ongoing press conference held in Ikeja.

He added that in 2023, his candidacy enjoyed the massive support of the PDP members at the grassroots but that the leaders of the party never supported him through the electioneering.

Adediran explained ” We were attacked 6 different times during the campaign but neither the State Chairman of the party nor any leader as such issued a statement condemning such attacks. A few days to the election, the supposed leaders of the party in Lagos State, Chief Olabode George, who had earlier publicly campaigned against the presidential candidate of the PDP, openly declared support for the gubernatorial candidate of another party in a press conference and also advised Lagosians not to vote for the party he claimed to be leading as a member of the Board of Trustees.

” Also, on the eve of the election, the State Chairman of the party Mr. Philip Aivoji, issued a false statement on all PDP platforms, speaking to an alliance that never existed, thereby telling all Lagosians that we have withdrawn from the election”.

He added ” A few days after the election, it is of public knowledge that the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, while justifying the outcome of the election on the media, revealed to Lagosians and Nigerians alike that the PDP couldn’t have won the election because most of the leaders of the party worked against us. He mentioned names of leaders that left the party to work for them, including the presidential campaign committee chairman in the state, Mr Adedeji Doherty. Till today, none of the party leaders he mentioned have rebutted his claims, rather they still have the audacity and effrontery to continue to parade themselves as party leaders”.

He said that after the election, complaints were made to the party at the national level believing that appropriate sanctions would be applied to all those who played anti-party roles but that nothing was done than to appoint Chief Bode George as Vice Chairman of a disciplinary committee.

Adediran added ” We have waited this long, to see if there will be some sort of respite, but what we see even at the top is that the same set of leaders that campaigned and worked openly against the party are the ones holding the aces today. How do we trust the same people again in the next election cycle and how do we forgive those who are not sorry for their misdeeds?”.