He was Never Our Own, Lagos PDP Truces Jandor for Backtracking To APC The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has truces Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, following his backtrack to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Adediran, who was the Lagos PDP governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, broadcasted his bounce back to APC at the news conference on Monday in Lagos.
Adediran, leader of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, broadcasted his resignation from the PDP on March 3, 2025, citing a lack of discipline in the party and betrayal by its leaders.
He was previously a member of the APC before uniting the PDP.
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Reacting to his defection in an interview with the Punch on Monday, the Deputy Chairman of the PDP in Lagos, Tai Benedict, stated Jandor was never “our own” and was allegedly planted by the APC to destabilise the PDP.
Benedict stated, “He was never our own. He was an agent sent to our party to abrogate our party. The very foremost time I saw him, I informed him to expound – that you are an agent of the APC, sent to our party because they knew we had a bright chance to prevail over that election.
“Although he declined it, eventually, I was vindicated. This was somebody who came to the party, and the leading thing he did was to commence implicating the leaders and the next thing he did was to disorganise an united party to the national monotonous until he got the ticket of our party from the back.
“You know, it’s very unfortunate, very unfortunate. We have never had it so badly. But all I have to reveal is we thank God. We’re okay with his exit.
“He came, he remarkably picked his dashing mate. It has never occurred. He reported because Funke (Akindele) had over three million followers on Instagram, that will make his victory (at the 2023 governorship poll) easier. But we had only 62,000 votes.”
“For me, I thank God that he has left our party. It’s not a good thing to lose membership in parties, I quite agree with that. It’s not good to lose your members to other parties. But there are more or less members that if they leave, you’ll be glad. One of such members is Jandor.”
Meanwhile, the APC in the state has welcomed Jandor, describing him as a vibrant young man who only traced his roots back home.
The party’s publicity secretary, Seye Oladejo, in an interview with The Round Table on Monday, disclosed the APC was ready to work with Jandor.
Oladejo reported, “Like all politicians, Jandor came to the party with ambition. At the time, that could be realised quickly on the platform of the conservatives, which has been rejected at the polls several times by the people of Lagos.
“So, now that he’s back, we’re cheerful to work with him. We appreciate the fact that Lagos has been better and safer in the hands of the progressives, who have enjoyed uninterrupted trust and confidence from the people.
“We believe in our party that there is abundant opportunity for him, like many others, to contribute his quota to the continual success of our government and growth of our party.”
He revealed the party was expecting more politicians to defect to the APC.
“In the days ahead, we’re expecting more decamps as we approach the next election.”
Dismissing the PDP’s purport that the APC planted Jandor to destablise the antithesis, Oladejo stated, “It shows how awkward ideas this so-called contradiction is.”
“We’re talking about a party that’s perpetually in violence. We’re talking about a party that can’t host itself, and they need to rule. The electorates in Lagos are told, they are sophisticated.
“They’re just looking for excuses to exculpate their incompetence, and the fact that they’re incapable of mobilising whatever modicum of encouragement they have for election victory.”
Gbenga has been covering Metro, politics and education overcomes for two years as a print and digital journalist
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Published 3/18/2025