Jandor says Bode George no longer member of PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for Lagos State in the 2023 election, Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has clarified his earlier stance of suspending Chief Bode George from the party.

Bode George was a former deputy national chairman of the PDP. He supported the Labour Party presidential and governorship candidate for Lagos State during the 2023 election.

In an interview on Arise News on Tuesday, Jandor said contrary to report that he suspended Bode George, that it was Bode George that suspended himself by aligning with the Labour Party during the 2023 election.

He said, “I did not expel them because I have no power to do so; I would rather say they expelled themselves when they declared for another party during the 2023 electioneering process. There is evidence on national TV both for the presidential and gubernatorial elections.

“When a supposed leader of a political party goes on national TV to say, ‘Don’t vote for the candidate of my party, irrespective of what it is, it shows that the leader has gone to the other party.

“If the party they supported had won, they would have been part of the government today. I don’t have the power, and they never said they’d be expelled; they did it themselves.

“What we’re saying is that because you’ve declared openly, you have no say in this party,” he said.

Recall that Jandor had earlier said that leaders of the party who supported another candidate during the last elections have ceased to be members of the party.

Jandor stated this in a State of the Nation address, where he also declared that he is now the leader of the PDP in the state.

According to him, leaders of the party who openly declared for another candidate both during the presidential and governorship elections are no longer members of the party.