By Ken Afor
Mr. Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election in Lagos state, has said that Chief Bode George ceases to be a member of the party.
Jandor in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday said that although he has no power to expell anybody but Chief George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP alongside others expelled themselves when they abandoned their party and supported another political party during the 2023 general elections.
He 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.”
It would be recalled that Jandor had earlier stated that party leaders who openly supported another candidate during both the presidential and gubernatorial elections have effectively ceased to be members of the party.
Jandor came third in the March 18, 2023, governorship election with 62,449 votes, he was defeated by the incumbent governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who garnered 762,134 votes.
Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) came second with 312,329 votes.
