Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, is running for governor of Lagos State on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, and he claims he is not “surprised” by Governor Nyesom Wike’s support for Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
On Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Jandor responded to queries by saying that the action did not surprise him and that he had “not done anything” against Wike to merit such treatment. He also asserted that Governor Sanwo-Olu had failed the people of Lagos.
“Like I said, we are surprised,” he said during the show. “Nobody will express shock about what happened yesterday except you are not in this country.”
“Nobody expects that a party man, a national leader will do that for any reason at all, but it has happened and there is nothing we can do about it,” he said.
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“My worry is this, he should be our role model at his level, as a governor, your office should come with a symbol of decorum.”
“This Governor Wike that came to Lagos saying somebody has performed, let me ask him, ‘How many times has this Governor invited him to come to Lagos to commission any project the way he (Wike) is commissioning up and down?’,” the PDP candidate asked.
“So, for four years of governing, he (Sanwo-Olu) has never commissioned any project. In Ambode’s years, you saw Abule Egba Flyover, Ajah Flyover, Airport International Road, and the bypass. But this government has nothing to show.”
Additionally, he asserted that he is supported by more members of the Labour Party (LP) than Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the party’s nominee for governor of Lagos State.
He claimed that if there was a vote in the LP, he would defeat Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.
“As a matter of fact, within the Labour Party, I have more followers than him,” he noted, adding that the next election is about candidates and not about parties.
“If we do election in Labour Party today, I would defeat him (Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour),” Jandor claimed.
Recall that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lauded his colleague in Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday.
Wike asserted that the calibre of the projects being finished around the state had raised the bar for government during a conference for women in Lagos.
Mr. Wike, a prominent PDP opponent, appeared to be promoting APC Governor Sanwo-Olu in his remarks in the run-up to the 2023 elections.
Even though he is a member of my party, Wike declared, “I would not come here if Sanwo-Olu is not doing (good).” “You won’t see me if you are a member of my party and you are performing poorly in government. You will see me if you are successful and don’t belong to my party. What is good governance?
