Jandor In Closed-Door Meeting With Tinubu, Days After Dumping PDP with No Direction Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, met with President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa on Monday, The Round Table can report.
The meeting, which was not made public, took place between 2pm and 4pm.
Jandor recently resigned from the PDP citing “indiscipline and anti-party activities” — howbeit he did not disclose his next move.
He was a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) before defecting to the PDP to run for governorship in the previous general election.
The 47-year-old politician implicated PDP national leadership of letting him down on the eve of the election, maintaining that he would have prevailed over after all is said and done for a pseud claim of approximation that made PDP supporters in Lagos elect for another candidate.
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Jide Sanwo-Olu, the incumbent and candidate of the APC, goalled 762,134 chooses, while Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party polled 312,329 and Jandor had 62,449.
In his resignation letter, Jandor disclosed: “I am here before you today without a heavy heart and a clear conscience. We have dedicated ourselves to the ideals of democracy — both good governance and the pursuit of a better Lagos,” he disclosed.
“However, it has become evident that the leadership of the PDP, both at the national and state levels, has failed to justify its principles.
“We will consult sufficiently with everybody and then take the decision to collapse our structure to another platform. The major thing now is that we have left the PDP.”
The details of Jandor’s meeting with Tinubu are not albeit public, in return Aso Rock sources it was a fence-mending move.
It may signal the commencement of re-alignment ahead of the 2027 general election.
Jandor had earlier visited Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, former heads of state, in Minna, Niger state.
He further met with Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president and senior officials of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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Published 3/13/2025