Bode George, a leader in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated that he was glad to have backed Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) in the Lagos governorship election and that he has no regrets about not having backed his own candidate, Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, in the March 18 election.
In a Monday night appearance on Channels TV’s Politics Today, George claimed that Rhodes-Vivour was the best candidate for governor in Lagos.
George claimed that regardless of his party membership, he supported the candidate who was the best among all of the contenders.
Bode George said the opposition party must unite and settle its internal squabbles in order to move forward while urging the party leadership to look into what caused the G5 governors and other elders to withdraw their support for the party’s presidential candidate.
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He stated: “If you say that I supported somebody from another party, it is not me as PDP. There is a group called Omo Eko Pataki and as a bonafide Lagosian we sat down, we took each of those candidates from (Governor Babajide) Sanwo-Olu to Jandor and others and we weighed them.
“And there was a new movement going on in the country and we said look, who has the capacity? Who has the best educational background? Who has the moral background to handle my state? As a PDP, the fellow who got the ticket was on another planet.
“No regrets whatsoever (not supporting Jandor). And let me tell you something, I said publicly to our presidential candidate that if they do not honour the South-West, I won’t vote for Atiku, I did not hide it.”
