LAGOS PDP ATTACKS JANDOR OVER HIS RETURN TO APC
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Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, often known as Jandor, has been made fun of by the Lagos State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party after he rejoined the ruling All Progressives Congress.
A news conference in Lagos on Monday marked Adediran’s return to the APC. Adediran was the Lagos PDP’s candidate for governor in the general elections of 2023.
The Lagos4Lagos Movement’s leader, Adediran, resigned from the PDP on March 3, 2025, claiming that the party lacked discipline and that its leaders had betrayed him.
Prior to joining the PDP, he belonged to the APC.
In a conversation with our correspondent on Monday, Tai Benedict, the Deputy Chairman of the PDP in Lagos, responded to his defection by claiming that Jandor was never “our own” and that the APC had planted him to undermine the PDP.
Benedict said, “He was never our own. He was an agent sent to our party to destroy our party. The very first time I saw him, I told him to explain – that you are an agent of the APC, sent to our party because they knew we had a bright chance to win that election.
“Although he denied it, eventually, I was vindicated. This was somebody who came to the party, and the first thing he did was to start accusing the leaders and the next thing he did was to disorganise a united party to the national level until he got the ticket of our party from the back.
“You know, it’s very unfortunate, very unfortunate. We have never had it so badly. But all I have to say is we thank God. We’re okay with his exit.
“He came, he singularly picked his running mate. It has never happened. He said because Funke (Akindele) had over three million followers on Instagram, that will make his victory (at the 2023 governorship poll) easier. But we had only 62,000 votes.”
“For me, I thank God that he has left our party. It’s not a good thing to lose membership in parties, I quite agree with that. It’s not good to lose your members to other parties. But there are some members that if they leave, you’ll be happy. One of such members is Jandor.”
Jandor was greeted by the state’s APC, which described him as a dynamic young man who only looked back to his homeland.
In an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, Seye Oladejo, the party’s publicity secretary, stated that the APC was prepared to collaborate with Jandor.
Oladejo said, “Like all politicians, Jandor came to the party with ambition. At the time, that could be realised quickly on the platform of the conservatives, which has been rejected at the polls several times by the people of Lagos.
“So, now that he’s back, we’re happy to work with him. We appreciate the fact that Lagos has been better and safer in the hands of the progressives, who have enjoyed uninterrupted trust and confidence from the people.
“We believe in our party that there is sufficient opportunity for him, like many others, to contribute his quota to the continual success of our government and growth of our party.”
He said the party was expecting more politicians to defect to the APC.
“In the days ahead, we’re expecting more decamps as we approach the next election.”
Dismissing the PDP’s claim that the APC planted Jandor to destablise the opposition, Oladejo said, “It shows how inept ideas this so-called opposition is.”
“We’re talking about a party that’s perpetually in crisis. We’re talking about a party that can’t organise itself, and they want to govern. The electorates in Lagos are informed, they are sophisticated.
“They’re just looking for excuses to justify their incompetence, and the fact that they’re incapable of mobilising whatever modicum of support they have for election victory.”
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