Obafemi Hamzat, the deputy governor of Lagos State, has refuted allegations of pervasive irregularities, violence, and voter intimidation in the most recent gubernatorial election conducted in the state.
During a live interview on Tuesday’s episode of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, the deputy governor played down the accusations made by the candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abdul-Azeez Adediran (also known as Jandor), and the Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.
Hamzat went on to mention some Lagos PDP defectors whose departures had a bad impact on the party’s gubernatorial campaign, contending that both opposition candidates were not focusing on the real problem, which is, in his opinion, their ability to run organisations.
Hamzat said: “I’ve listened to all sorts of commentary about this election and I think it’s very unkind from Nigerians, “Unfortunately, people tend to be bad losers. So, instead of re-examining what exactly happened: ‘How do I get better?’ The PDP candidate was saying, ‘We contested against INEC.’ No. The reality was, you lost all your party members.”
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“Ade Dosunmu left your party, Wahab Owokoniran left your party. [Funsho] Doherty left your party – who is the chairman of the PCC for Atiku/Okowa and Jandor in Lagos?” he said.
“His own director, the campaign director for the PDP candidate resigned and left. So, you lost everybody around you. The question is, how did you manage your party? You didn’t do well.”
