I Would Have Defeated Sanwo-Olu But For Obi Effect – Jandor

In the 2023 governorship election, Olajide Adediran, a popularly known Jandor, predicted that despite the “Peter Obi effect,” he would have defeated Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

On Tuesday’s Politics Today program on Channels Television, Jandor, the then-candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, stated this.

He claimed that the politics changed after the Labour Party’s (LP) victory in the February 2023 presidential election in Lagos, which was followed by the governorship poll that was conducted weeks later. “The 2023 election came with this tsunami, and it was there for everyone to see,” he said.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) incumbent governor Sanwo-Olu of the INEC declared the winner in the governorship election. He polled a total of 762, 134 votes, beating LP’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who received 312, 329 votes, and Jandor, who received 62, 449 votes.

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Bola Tinubu, the candidate for president, lost to Obi in the earlier presidential election in Lagos State. Obi received 582, 454 votes, beating out Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) who polled 8, 442, and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who received 572, 606, and Atiku Abubakar who received 75, 750 votes.

Jandor claimed that there were some odd dynamics during the election. We were walking through Lagos before the general election on February 25th, when the ruling party was nowhere to be found. He (Sanwo-Olu) didn’t appear during one of our debates, but he did say he didn’t want to share a stage with me.

“The 2023 election had its dynamics, and it remained a two-horse race until the election for president.” If you take a look at the results of the presidential election, Atiku came in third, Asiwaju came in second, and Peter Obi came in first (in Lagos).

There was a belief that if we did this, XYZ would be able to escape this state at the time of the incident. We were therefore victims of that.

No one saw that coming when I address my people, and I tell them, “Look, we did everything, but that wave came and swallowed the entire thing.”

He claimed that he probably would have won the governorship election if it hadn’t been for the Peter Obi effect, adding that he still thought it was his turn to be Lagos governor at the time.

Before he left the party in 2022, Jandor’s political history began with the APC. He later joined the Lagos4Lagos Movement, a bloc within the ruling party. Before the 2023 election, he became the PDP’s candidate for governor of Lagos.

He recently left the PDP, however, after accusing some party leaders of abusing him. We were anticipating whether the party that was governed by the party’s constitution would examine the party’s provisions and declare that this was the sanction for engaging in open anti-party activities.

The same person was appointed Vice Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee by the national, he said, “We waited patiently for two years to see if that would happen.”

Source: Channels TV