Post-Election Crisis: I Never Expelled Bode George From Lagos PDP – Jandor
The governorship candidate of the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has denied expelling Chief Bode George from the party.
While speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday, 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 had earlier said that leaders of the party who supported other candidate during the last elections have ceased to be members of the party.
Speaking at a ‘thank-you ceremony’ for members of his campaign team, Jandor declared that with the suspension of other leaders, he is now the new leader of the PDP in the state. According to him, leaders of the party who openly declared for another candidate both during the presidential and governorship elections are no longer members of the party.
Jandor said 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.
He maintained that working against the party has been the stock in trade of those party leaders. He recalled that in the 2019 election, the same group declared to support the Action Democratic Party (ADP) against the PDP and also worked for the Labour Party in the 2017 local government election in the state.
He said: “What happened was their stock in trade. If you don’t want to be in PDP again, carry your bag and go. Those who have declared for labour should stay there.
“Those who have worked for APC should enjoy it. The owner of the party is at the centre and we are waiting for them to tell us how they want their party to be run at the state level.” Jandor declared that as the candidate of the party in the last election, he is now the number one leader of the party.
“As of today, I am number one at the party. I am saying this with due respect to other faithful leaders I met in PDP, I am now the number one by the constitution of our party except I choose to leave tomorrow,” he declared.
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