By Chukwudi Nweje
Head,  Media and Communications JANDOR4Governor Campaign Organisation, Gbenga Ogunleye had said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government in Lagos State is tormented by the blowing wind of imminent  change of government in 2023.
He said, “It is now very obvious that truly, JANDOR’s Lagos4lagos movement is the real tormentor of the APC and they will stop at nothing to discredit it, unfortunately, it’s too late in the day. The spate of public declaration of support for the breath of fresh air agenda of JANDOR and his running mate, Olufunke Akindele by various groups across the state has unsettled the APC and reaffirmed the resolution of the good people of Lagos state who are barely enduring their remaining days in office to effect a change of government in 2023.”
Ogunleye said this Thursday in reaction to the APC’s claim that 5,000 supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State governorship candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran had defected to the APC.
According to him, the lies peddled by the APC that Jandor’s followers are joining their ranks is an act of desperation and an underhand tactics to undermine the JANDOR gubernatorial campaign which has now become the symbol of hope for ordinary Lagosians.
He said it was strange that Adediran whom the APC had called “an apprentice politician” had become their tormentir-in-chief, making the APC to peddle lies to hide its fear.
He further said, “We read with amusement a report of a false claim made by the outgoing APC-led state government that 5,000 supporters of the Lagos PDP Governorship candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR) are billed to join the APC. The consistently inconsistent drowning Lagos APC who at several times claimed JANDOR has no followers of his, is now staging a fake decampees rally calling it the defection of members of the same Man they called an apprentice politician.
“Contrary to the false claim of a planned defection of supporters of JANDOR from the PDP  to the already drowning APC, innumerable members of the ruling party are daily trooping into the PDP across the state while some who are still within the party are poised to support the change of government project even from within the APC.
“We will not be surprised if the APC still go ahead to rents faceless individuals and present them as members of the JANDOR-led Lagos4Lagos movement who are defecting to their party to deceive the public but we are ready to put a lie to this charade. We challenge the ruling party to state the details of the decampees and the position they held either in the Lagos4Lagos movement or the Lagos PDP.”
Ogunleye added that since Adediran and over 150,000 members of the Lagos4Lagos movement within the APC decamped to the Lagos PDP, the APC in the state has been in disarray.
He noted that the people of Lagos have rejected the APC government because of its failure to address the needs of the people.
He added, “The abysmal performance of the Sanwo-Olu administration in over three years of being in office has infuriated the people of Lagos. The state of infrastructural decay and absence of government in all the local government areas that JANDOR and Olufunke Akindele have visited in their ongoing campaign tour of the 245 political wards across the state is saddening and disheartening and in no doubt unsettling the ruling party because of the unprecedented exposure it has given the PDP. It has also revealed the level of disrepair in the state of public infrastructure, and the agony of the people living in all the wards so far visited.
“Lagosians have decried the total neglect and insensitivity of the state government to their welfare and security and have resolved to massively vote to install a masses-friendly government on March 11, 2023 date for the governorship election.
“The triumph of evil over good in Lagos state has ended with the emergence of JANDOR and nothing will stop the divine project of offering the good people of Lagos state the well-deserved breath of fresh air.”
The PDP said it is not perturbed by the lies of the APC
“JANDOR will not be distracted by all the puerile efforts of the APC to slow down the ongoing political revolution that will end the hegemony of the APC. They have failed to intimidate the teeming followers of the PDP with the sponsored attack on the campaign train recently in Badagry, neither were the people deterred by the government closure of two markets in Alimosho because of the support shown by the market leaders when Olufunke Akindele visited major markets across the local government, therefore the planned false defection of JANDOR supporters will amount to nothing” Jandor Campaign Organisation said.