Twice postponed PDP reception for Jandor now holds at TBS, in Lagos

Twice postponed official reception for the convener of the splinter All Progressives Congress (APC) group, the Lagos4Lagos Lead Visioner, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor) as well as other members of the movement, in the state by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) now holds at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS).

This is as the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu is expected to lead 11 state governors on the platform of the party to the grand reception at the TBS, Friday.

A statement by the group’s Press Secretary, Kazeem Bakare, confirming the development, read: “The Lagos4Lagos helmsman and his teeming followers and members will officially join the PDP tomorrow.

Speaking ahead of the formal declaration, Jandor revealed that the much anticipated event will show Lagosians that the PDP is ready to win Lagos.

” As we formally join the PDP on January, 21, 2022, the day will signal the burial of APC in Lagos,” concluded.

Governors confirmed to attend the high octane political event include; Governor Seyi Makinde(Oyo); Godwin Obaseki(Edo); Ahmadu Fintiri(Adamawa)Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi(Enugu); Emmanuel Udom(Akwa Ibom); Okezie Ikpeazu(Abia); Nyesom Wike(Rivers) Duoye Diri(Bayelsa); Samuel Ortom(Benue) and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state.

Also on the bill is former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Former Governor of Ondo State Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and Other PDP chieftains including members of the National Assembly, state and National Executives of the party led by the National Chairman. Chief Iyorchia Ayu.

Lagos4Lagos Movement, a splinter group within the ruling APC in Lagos State, had initially its shifted its official declaration of defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from December 18, last year to January 11, 2022, but later moved it to January 22.

Prince Sunday Ajayi, the group’s apex leader, disclosed that the event earlier fixed for Saturday at the TBS had been postponed because of the absence of some PDP governors, who wanted to attend.

The movement led by Dr Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, recently announced its defection to the main opposition party in the state and fixed Dec. 18 for official declaration and movement of its members to PDP.

“We have shifted the event to Jan 11, 2022 due to the absence of some PDP governors that want to attend,” Ajayi said, adding further that the group would be received formally to the PDP on the January 11 as against the earlier announced date of December18.

Ajayi said that the group took the decision to join the PDP after exploiting all avenues for reconciliation within the ruling APC.

According to him, all that the group wants is fairness, justice and internal democracy.

It would be recalled that Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had met with the leaders of the aggrieved APC members on December 4 and wooed them into the PDP.

Saraki, Chairman of PDP’s National Reconciliation Committee, met with hundreds of members of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, and the group’s leader, Olajide Adediran, at an event organised for the defection.

The Adediran faction of the APC held parallel ward, local government and state congresses at different locations in the state over unresolved grievances.

The group has alleged impunity, marginalisation and imposition of candidates in the APC for its action.