Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Dr Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor), has described as false the claim made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that 5,000 supporters of his are billed to join the ruling party in the state.

The PDP standard-bearer made this declaration on Thursday in a statement by Head, Media and Communications JANDOR4Governor Campaign Organisation, Mr Gbenga Ogunleye, a copy of which was made available to newsmen, even as challenged the ruling party to state the details of the defectors and the position they held either in the Lagos4Lagos movement or the Lagos PDP.

This was just as Adediran expressed amassment at the report on the planned decampment,” noting that the ruling APC, which had “at several times claimed Jandor has no followers of his, is now staging a fake defectors rally calling it the defection of members of the same man they called an apprentice politician.”

According to the PDP standard bearer, it is now very obvious that truly, Jandor’s Lagos4lagos Movement is the real tormentor of the APC, saying that the ruling party would stop at nothing to discredit it, even if it was unfortunately too late in the day.

“We challenge the ruling party to state the details of the defectors and the position they held either in the Lagos4Lagos movement or the Lagos PDP,” Jandor’s Campaign Office declared.

Speaking further, the Campaign Office said that contrary to the false claim of a planned defection of supporters of Jandor from the PDP to what it described as the already drowning APC, innumerable members of the ruling party were daily trooping into the main opposition PDP across the state “while some who are still within the party are poised to support the change of government project even from within the APC.

“It is now very obvious that truly, Jandor’s Lagos4lagos movement is the real tormentor of the APC and they will stop at nothing to discredit it, unfortunately, it’s too late in the day.

“The spate of public declaration of support for the breath of fresh air agenda of Jandor and his running mate, Olufunke Akindele, by various groups across the state has unsettled the APC and reaffirmed the resolution of the good people of Lagos State who are barely enduring their remaining days in office to effect a change of government in 2023.

“Contrary to the false claim of a planned defection of supporters of Jandor from the PDP to the already drowning APC, innumerable members of the ruling party are daily trooping into the PDP across the state while some who are still within the party are poised to support the change of government project even from within the APC,” the Campaign Office stated.

The Campaign Office said it would not be surprising if the ruling party still went ahead to rent faceless individuals and present them as members of the Jandor- led Lagos4Lagos Movement who were defecting to their party to deceive the public, but quickly declared that it was poised to put a lie to such.

This was just as it noted that the Lagos APC had been in disarray since January when over 150,000 members of the Lagos4Lagos movement within the fold decamped to the Lagos PDP, “and out of desperation resorted to all sorts of underhand tactics to undermine the Jandor gubernatorial campaign which has now become the symbol of hope for ordinary Lagosians.”

“The abysmal performance of the Sanwo-Olu administration in over three years of being in office has infuriated the people of Lagos. The state of infrastructural decay and absence of government in all the local government areas that Jandor and Olufunke Akindele have visited in their ongoing campaign tour of the 245 political wards across the state is saddening and disheartening and in no doubt unsettling the ruling party because of the unprecedented exposure it has given the PDP. It has also revealed the level of disrepair in the state of public infrastructure, and the agony of the people living in all the wards so far visited.

“They can’t match Jandor in such an exercise because they have nothing to tell the people who they have neglected over the years and also such rigorous exercise are not for someone who is not mentally and physically fit.

“Lagosians have decried the total neglect and insensitivity of the state government to their welfare and security and have resolved to massively vote to install a masses-friendly government on March 11th, 2023 date for the gubernatorial election.

“Jandor will not be distracted by all the puerile efforts of the APC to slow down the ongoing political revolution that will end the hegemony of the APC. They have failed to intimidate the teeming followers of the PDP with the sponsored attack on the campaign train recently in Badagry, neither were the people deterred by the government closure of two markets in Alimosho because of the support shown by the market leaders when Olufunke Akindele visited major markets across the local government, therefore, the planned false defection of Jandor supporters will amount to nothing.

“The triumph of evil over good in Lagos State has ended with the emergence of Jandor and nothing will stop the divine project of offering the good people of Lagos State, the well-deserved breath of fresh air,” the statement said. (Nigerian Tribune)

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