Lagos 2023, Why I Dumped APC – Jandor; APC Calls Him A Mole

By Akinwale Kasali

It was no  surprise that Leader of Lagos4Lagos Group, Olajide Adediran, popular as Jandor, defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to opposition Party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

For months,  there has been  disenchantment in the Lagos APC, over the running of the affairs of the Lagos State APC. The Jandor group had, especially, complained about the stranglehold of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the party. Tinubu’s leadership style did not augur well with the grass root politician and mobilizer. Thus, Jandor was persuaded to join the PDP train.

The Jandor Group, a faction of the APC in Lagos State formally joined the PDP over the weekend. They were received by former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki.

According to Jandor, he left APC because the leadership was not ready to be focused unlike PDP.

“Everybody knew the events that led to our defection. We have seen that they (APC leadership) are not ready for anything. And for us, we have a vision and we are focused on it.

“We all saw what the PDP did during their congresses. They held a rancour free congress from the ward, local government, state and as well as the national levels.

“We are focused and we have the numbers. We have weighed other options and we believe it is better we move our structure to a political party that equally has a structure. You know structure wins an election.

“I am sure you know that our going into the PDP is to join forces with the opposing camp who has been longing to wrestle power from the ruling APC in Lagos State.”

Reacting to Jandor’s defection, the Lagos State APC spokesman, Seye Oladejo, said Jandor has been a mole planted in the party by the opposition party.

“I congratulate him (Jandor) for finally converting from the opposition within to the real opposition. He has always been an opposition within the Lagos APC. He has always been regarded as a mole planted in our party. We knew he has been fraternising with the PDP.

“He has failed woefully in his mission to destroy the Lagos APC. So we are not losing any sleep at all with his defection. And now he has moved to his natural habitat amongst people who have never known what structure is like in Lagos politics.

“His movement has also shown that it’s all about his ambition and not about doing well for the good people of Lagos State. We wish him well in his new party where we hope he manages to be their flag bearer. He is blindfolded by ambition and clearly in a desperate mode.”