Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, also referred to as Jandor, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for governor of Lagos State in the 2023 election, declared on Tuesday that he had not banished Chief Bode George from the organization.
Jandor clarified that George and those who voted for candidates from other parties in the previous election left the PDP.
Recall that Jandor had previously declared that party officials who backed different candidates in the most recent elections were no longer party members.
Speaking during his ‘State of the Nation’ address, Jandor declared himself the leader of the PDP in Lagos State.
However, appearing on Arise Television on Tuesday, Jandor 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.”
