The governorship candidate of the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, said he did not expel Chief Bode George from the party.
He stated this in a television interview on Tuesday.
In his words, “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.
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“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.
“What we’re saying is that because you’ve declared openly, you have no say in this party,” he added.
Recall that, in a State of the Nation address, Jandor declared that leaders of the party who supported another candidate in the last election both during the presidential and governorship elections have ceased to be members of the party.
Recall also, that Jandor came third in the governorship election, won by incumbent Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu. He also lost the cases filed at the Tribunal, Appeal Court, and Supreme Court where he sought to be declared the winner of the election, alleging that the governor presented a fake secondary school result.
Jandor stated that the experience of the PDP and its candidates in the 2023 election was not different from the past, when some party leaders betrayed the party by working against its candidates.