Olajide Adediran, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor in Lagos, asserts that he will defeat Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the incumbent governor, and "all his godfathers put together" in the general election of 2023.
The support of Sanwo-Olu by Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike, according to Adeniran, also known as Jandor, was deemed "inconsequential."
At a meeting held by the wives of Lagos state officials on Tuesday, Wike stated that he supported Sanwo-administration Olu's because he was "doing well."
The governor of Rivers referred to Sanwo-Olu as a "friend who will be a second-term governor" during the conference.
Sanwo-Olu is seeking re-election as Lagos's governor on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, while Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is at loggerheads with the leadership of his party.
In a Thursday chat with Arise News TV, Jandor said the Rivers governor worked against him during the Lagos PDP governorship primary, and he won regardless.
He added that if Wike could not stop him then “with all his might within the PDP,” Lagosians and not the Rivers governor would decide his fate at the poll.
“Wike’s unrepentant and irreversible way of life. Wike is Wike, everybody knows. And where you have no expectations, there will be no disappointment. That, I will consider inconsequential. But what worries me is the desperation of this government, doing everything to garner support that is not there,” Adeniran said.
“Somebody (Wike) who with all his might within the PDP, who did not support me during the primary, could stop me then. How will he decide if I will govern Lagos or not; that’s for Lagosians to decide.
“I will defeat Sanwo-Olu and everybody supporting him — home and abroad — all his godfathers put together.”