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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has claimed he lost because of Peter Obi’s influence.
Jandor made this claim while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
According to him, his campaign had gained huge momentum before the February 25, 2023, elections.
However, the sudden shift in voter dynamics altered the outcome.
“We did everything, but that wave came and swallowed the whole thing. Nobody saw that coming,” Jandor said.
When asked, “If not for Peter Obi’s influence in the presidential election, would you have won the governorship election?” Jandor responded, “Absolutely, I probably would have won the election at the governorship election.”
According to the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 762,134 votes to emerge winner.
The candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, polled 312,329 votes, while Jandor scored 62,449 votes.
In other news, The Peter Obi Media Reach, POMR, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to ignore the false claim that former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was directly or indirectly involved in the struggle for the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
It stated that Obi voted for the late MKO Abiola in that election and subsequently relocated to the United Kingdom (UK) with his family to establish his business.
The spokesman of POMR, Ibrahim Umar, was reacting to reports suggesting that Obi played a role in the June 12, 1993 struggle.
Umar dismissed the reports, titled “Peter Obi and NADECO/Democracy Day” and “Nigerians Must Not Forget, In 1993 Peter Obi was a protégé of Arthur Nzeribe in the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN),” as false and malicious against the former Anambra State governor.
Describing the reports as the handiwork of blackmailers, Umar said they were aimed at tarnishing Obi’s image by some well-mobilised mercenaries.
