Why I lost 2023 Lagos governorship election – Jandor
The 2023 Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has explained reasons for losing at the governorship poll.
Adediran who appeared on the Channels TV Politics Today programme on Tuesday, said the ‘Peter Obi effect’ affected his performan at the poll, saying that he would have defeated the incumbent governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
“The 2023 election came with this Tsunami that nobody ever expected and it was there for everybody to see”, said Adediran.
He stated that after Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) won the February 2023 presidential election in Lagos, the dynamics changed against the PDP for the governorship poll that was conducted weeks after.
However, Adediran said the election came with peculiar dynamics. “Before the February 25th general election, we were on the streets of Lagos and the ruling party was nowhere to be found. We had several debates and he (Sanwo-Olu) didn’t show up and he did say he didn’t want to share a stage with me,” he said.
“The 2023 election came with its dynamics, and it was a two-horse race until the presidential election. If you look at what happened in the presidential election, Peter Obi came first (in Lagos), Asiwaju came second, and Atiku came third.
“The moment that happened, there was this belief that if we do this, we can get this state off XYZ. So, we were victims of that. Each time I address my people, I tell them: look, we did everything but that wave came and swallowed the whole thing; nobody saw that coming”, said Adediran
He said if not for the Peter Obi effect, “I probably would have won the election” at the governorship level, adding that he believed that it wasn’t God’s time yet for him to become Lagos governor at the time.
