BREAKING: PDP’s Jandor returns to APC “after extensive consultations” | Prestige News

Abdulazeez ‘Jandor’ Adediran, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos State governorship candidate, has returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He announced his return to the APC at a press conference in Ikeja, Lagos on Monday.

“We have decided to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC),” he said.

Popularly known as Jandor, he ran against the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was seeking reelection, and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and came third.

‘PDP romance’

In 2021, Mr Adediran, the lead visioner of Lagos4Lagos, an anti-Tinubu group, dumped the APC to run as a gubernatorial candidate in the PDP.

He had vowed to end what he described as the 24-year monopoly of Bola Tinubu, the former governor of the state.

“We will come in and do things differently. The problem of Lagos is that we have one head thinking about the state of Lagos for the past 24 years,” Jandor said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.

Jandor lamented what he described as hegemony and monopoly of the state by Mr Tinubu, who was Lagos governor after Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999.

“The problem is this monopoly that we need to break. If we have a governor that is independent, we won’t have this problem, and that is what we represent,” he said.

Source: Premium Times