Two days to the Governorship Election, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, has maintained that he has not stepped down for any candidate in the state.
Adediran made the remarks during a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, ahead of the state’s governorship election on March 18th.
Recall that the PDP in Lagos previously stated that Adediran will not step down for any candidate.
The report that Adediran is considering stepping down for Labour Party (LP) candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is “false,” according to Hakeem Amode, Lagos PDP spokesperson.
The statement was in response to a comment attributed to Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate in the state, that the LP is “talking to the owner of the structure of the PDP” ahead of the March 11 governorship election.
There have been rumors that the LP and PDP in Lagos may form an alliance to defeat the state’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress.
The Lagos PDP, on the other hand, stated that there is no “official conversation” between the party and the LP.
The statement reads:“Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has debunked claims by the Labour Party Candidate PDP Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour that he’s talking with what he called “the real owners of PDP structure in Lagos State”, saying the statement as credited to the Labour Party candidate came as a disrespect to PDP, as no one can lay claims to the ownership structure of the PDP.
“So whoever Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is talking to are only representing themselves and not Lagos PDP, as there is no official conversation across the two party lines at the moment, and Jandor is NOT planning to step down for any candidate.
