The Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Dr Olajide Abdul-Azeez Adeniran popularly known as Jandor, has revealed that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, worked against his emergence during the PDP governorship primary in the state.
Jandor made the revelation when he appeared on a Channels TV programme on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
He was reacting to Governor Wike’s endorsement of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for a second term in office, on Tuesday, October 18, 2022.
Wike of the PDP, was Guest of Honour at a conference organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWSLO) when he issued his endorsement of an opposition candidate.
The Quest Times reports that Gov Wike, during the conference, described Sanwo-Olu, who is looking to fight off any challenge from Jandor in the 2023 Lagos governorship election, as “my friend who will be a second-term governor”, to the chagrin of the Lagos PDP chapter.
Jandor in turn revealed that he wasn’t shocked by Wike’s move, stating that the Rivers governor worked against him during his bid to secure the governorship ticket.
He queried Wike’s comments on Sanwo-Olu, saying had Wike done his assignment very well, he would have seen that his Lagos counterpart has failed to perform.
“As a matter of fact, what happened (referring to the incident) should not surprise anyone but, in my case, I am not surprised because it is Governor Wike. No one will express shock over what he said except you are not in this country.
“During my primary, he did not buy my form. He was supporting somebody else in Lagos because he needed structure to win (PDP presidential primary). I don’t have that structure,” he said.
“They had done all the structures in the PDP before my coming and I said to him in the presence of Governor Seyi Makinde that ‘your friend is not supporting me in Lagos’. I repeated it when I went to Port Harcourt.
“That was before the primary. He said he was supporting somebody else and I understood why he was supporting someone else because I didn’t have anything at that time.
“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 (Wike) 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? If he had done his assignment very well, I don’t think he would have said that person was performing.”