The Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, AKA, Jandor, has hinted that merger and alignment talks are ongoing among governorship candidates in the state to defeat the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 2023 governorship election.
He spoke in response to a question at the private sector engagement forum organised for governorship candidates by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Tuesday.
Three candidates including Adediran, those of Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and African Democratic Congress (ADC), Funsho Doherty were in attendance, but Sanwo-Olu was absent.
While the two other governorship candidates in response to a question on a possible merger to defeat the incumbent governor said the process was complicated, the PDP candidate confirmed that talks were ongoing among the candidates with a view to defeating Sanwo-Olu.
Adediran said he personally met Doherty to discuss the merger issues, adding that he had a similar discussion with Rhodes-Vivour, and that all the candidates are in alignment on the need to change the status quo which he described as “nonsense.”
He said, “There is an alignment in our aspiration. I strongly believe we need to come together. Talks are ongoing to see what we can do and we are doing it. We must put our best [foot] forward and see who can win for us. We need to win first. After dislodging them, we can then come up with a cabinet that would be all-inclusive.”
