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Lagos Guber: Why I Refused To Form Alliance With LP Candidate, Rhodes-Vivour – Jandor

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Abdul-Azeez Adediran nicknamed Jandor, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, has rebuffed attempts to forge a coalition with his Labour Party (LP) rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.

The PDP flagbearer declared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday that creating an alliance with his LP opponent is “like sitting on a barrel of gunpowder.”

Adediran stated that he declined to establish an alliance with Rhodes-Vivour because he is involved in a legal battle regarding his candidacy and has a problem with Section 77 of the Election Act.

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Despite a move for an alliance to defeat the current governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Jandor warned the legal problem could come up in post-election litigation.

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He said: “When talks of an alliance began flying around. We tabled the matter, even though Gbadebo and I haven’t sat together to discuss it.

“We came ourselves to look at the issue and say, ‘Within us, what do we want to do? Do we want to put an end to a dynasty that has held us by the jugular for over two decades? Where do we go from here?’

“We now discovered that the Labour Party candidate still has a case on his candidacy which is currently at the Supreme Court, we looked at it again that the Labour Party candidate also has an issue with Section 77 of the Electoral Act, which says if you’re leaving a particular party to another one, you must have been there, at least, for one month, that is, the party register would have been with INEC 30 days before that party primary.

“For us, we don’t have a problem, we would have said [to Rhodes-Vivour], ‘Go [on], let’s just take this [APC] government.’

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“But knowing full well who we’re dealing with; we know the kind of character we’re dealing with, we know what can happen – there’s no point sitting on a keg of gunpowder.

“So, for us, we want an alliance; we don’t have any issue with it. But we must put our best foot forward. We must make sure that we go into this election without any snag whatsoever.”

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