- Lagos GAC receives Jandor into APC
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has expressed anger over a campaign billboard bearing the pictures of President Bola Tinubu and Governor Ademola Adeleke.
Tinubu is the national leader of APC, a major opposition party in Osun while Adeleke is of the ruling People’s Democratic Party in the state.
Adeleke is seeking reelection in 2026.
Angered by the campaign pictures, the leadership of the APC in the state described the pairing up of the president and Adeleke on a billboard conspicuously displayed at Ward 12, Iwo Local Government Council Area of the state as fraudulent.
Osun APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, in a statement on Thursday, noted that the billboard bearing the inscription of ‘Continuity of Progress’ sponsored by “a faceless political body scripted as ‘Osun Leaders of Thought’ was sighted early yesterday which probably might have been erected in the early hours of Wednesday.”
According to Olabisi, “This is the absurd playing of dirty politics taken too far as there could not be any acceptable reason for the sponsorship of the fraudulent billboard other than a flagrant display of irreverent attitude orchestrated by political Jews with a mission to compare the sky with the ground.
“We want to tell the whole world that we are vehemently condemning and dissociating our party from the nose and eye sore which exemplified political heresy in the heartland of the core progressive politics in the affected part of the state.
“The masterminds of the controversial billboard succeeded in exposing their lack of tact and diplomacy in the art of the use of stratagem to achieve their targeted political goal through the misuse of propaganda.”
He added that, “One needs not be a wizard to recognize the fact that the fraudulently pairing up of the photographs of President Tinubu with that of the visibly embattled Governor Adeleke in the controversial billboard is sending an indisputable signal to the discerning minds that the political tension being faced by the ruling People’s Democratic Party PDP-led government in the state is approaching a dangerous dimension of an abysmal loss of popularity within three years of the inglorious PDP governor.
“We want to make it abundantly clear to our esteemed members and numerous supporters that the feigned billboard is a counterfeit which origin did not emanate from us and therefore, should be discountenanced as one of the frivolous antics of the drowning so-called ruling party in the state which can better be described as a display of a roguish political act in a supposed democratic firmament.”
Lagos GAC receives Jandor into APC
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Governance Advisory Council has received Abdul-Azeez Adediran (a.k.a. Jandor), a former PDP chieftain and Visioner of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, into the ruling APC.
Adediran, the 2023 Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the PDP defected to APC in March.
In a statement issued by his spokesman, Gbenga Ogunleye, on Thursday in Lagos, Adediran said he was received by GAC members led by Prince Tajudeen Olusi.
“In a significant show of unity and goodwill, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, Jandor, was warmly received by the Lagos State Governance Advisory Council (GAC) Chairman, Prince Tajudeen Olusi; Badagry Division Apex Leader of APC and fellow GAC member, Chief Rabiu Oluwa; Sen. Ganiu Olanrewaju Solomon and Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro.”
According to Adediran, the reception took place in Saudi Arabia.
“The meeting, which was held during the Umrah pilgrimage, served as a symbolic moment of engagement between key stakeholders in Lagos politics, emphasizing the importance of unity.
“This encounter reflects a shared commitment to the progress and unity of Lagos State, underscoring the enduring values of collective responsibility and synergy in the furtherance of the vision of the ruling party,” Adediran said.
Adediran, who leads the Lagos4Lagos Movement and was once an APC governorship aspirant, had defected to PDP from APC in 2021.