Olajide Adediran
The 2023 governorship candidate of the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos state, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, stated that he would have emerged victorious over Gov Babajide Sanwo-Olu but for the “Peter Obi effect.”
“We did everything, but that wave came and swallowed the whole thing. Nobody saw that coming,” Jandor said in the interview
When asked, “If not for Peter Obi’s influence in the presidential election, would you have won the governorship election?”, he responded
“Absolutely, I probably would have won the election at the governorship election. The 2023 election came with this Tsunami that nobody ever expected and it was there for everybody to see,” he said
For the governorship election, the electoral umpire INEC declared incumbent governor Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner. He polled a total of 762,134 votes, defeating LP’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour who scored 312,329 votes, followed by Jandor with 62,449 votes.
