Lagos Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Jide Adeniran, has said that the leadership of the party in the state, shouldn’t have responded to governor’s Wike endorsement of Babajide Sanwo-Olu
He added that no one should express shock over the recent endorsement by Wike because he had never supported his governorship ambition.
The PDP governorship candidate popularly known as Jandor stated this on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television Politics Today.
He said, “As a matter of fact, that shouldn’t shock or surprise anyone, but in my own case, I’m actually not surprise, because it is Governor Wike.
“But, what I’m going to say is first, I want to apologize to Nigerians on behalf of my party in Lagos, because I saw the statement issued by my party and felt we should’nt have behaved like him, but unfortunately we did.
“My party shouldn’t have responded to Governor Wike because what happened should not surprise anyone except you are not in this country.
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“But for me, just like the party put in their statement, how can someone who didn’t support me with all his might within the PDP while seeking the party ticket will feel he has the magic wind to take a decision for Lagosians?
“I became the governorship candidate without any dime from him although he has supported Lagos PDP in the past. He supported someone else and I remember telling Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, that his friend is not supporting me. That was before the primary.
“But today, I picked that ticket with all his might within the PDP, and I’m the candidate of the party today. I don’t think I have done anything wrong for him to bring such treatment to Lagos, and I see how APC was jumping up and down because of that.
“If for anything, that brought a lot of sympathy, because you will never expect a party man, a governor of a state in our party for that matter, a national leader, will come and do that for any reason at all.
“This governor Wike that came to Lagos saying somebody has performed, let me ask him how many times has this governor invited him to come to Lagos to commission a project or any governor at all, the way he is commissioning up and down.
“For the four years of the governor, he has never commissioned one single project. In Ambode’s tenure, three years, we saw Abule Egba flyover, Ajah flyover, airport international road and the bypass.
“This government, nothing to show for everything they have done. Yet, their budget in 2020, according to them, performed 88 percent; in 2021, performed 86 percent; and in 2022, for half of the year, it is on 77 percent both revenue and expenditure.
“Yet, nothing to show for it. What are you celebrating? You just want to come to Lagos and do to that on nothing. If he had done his assignment very well, I don’t think he would have said that person was performing.”
“My worry is this, he should be our role model at his level, as a governor, your office should come with a symbol of decorum.”
Speaking further, Adeniran stated that he has moved on to the real business by commencing campaigns noting he and his team would tour the 245 wards in the state.
“Today, I started my campaign in Alimosho Federal constituency as I am visiting all the wards to campaign. I have a lot to do. The people of Lagos want a breath of fresh air.”
“I, Jide will become governor next year,”he added