The PDP on Tuesday fumed, saying it would render Sanwo-Olu jobless in 2023.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State has berated Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for endorsing his counterpart in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP on Tuesday fumed, saying it would render Sanwo-Olu jobless in 2023.
The party was reacting to the purported endorsement of Sanwo-Olu for second term by Wike during his visit to Lagos.
SaharaReporters had on Tuesday reported that Wike endorsed Sanwo-Olu, for second term in office, according to Sanwo-Olu’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, in a short statement.
“Breaking: Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike endorses Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for second term in office. Details later,” Akosile had written.
The endorsement came despite Wike’s party, the PDP having a governorship candidate in Lagos, in the person of Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor.
The PDP in a statement issued on Tuesday evening by its Publicity Secretary, Hakeem Amode, said it would have expressed disappointment if Wike had attended any event “without his usual rant of a drowning man who will clutch at straw.”
He said, “I only wonder how Governor Wike, who didn’t support Jandor and at the same time couldn’t stop him from picking the party ticket in Lagos, despite his supposed might within the PDP, would apportion to himself the decision of generality of Lagosians in the forthcoming election.
“While we won’t but acknowledge Governor Wike’s developmental strides in Rivers State which have witnessed influx of other state chief executives including Sanwo-Olu for commissioning, it is worrisome that Wike will call Sanwo-Olu a performer without asking how many times he has invited anyone to Lagos for the commissioning of ordinary borehole in his almost four years in office as Governor.
“My dear Governor and leader, we promise to render Sanwo-Olu jobless and send him to the club of you former Governors next year. Only God, who has seen Jandor and Lagos PDP this far, and the generality of Lagosians, can determine his fate at the polls in 2023, not your endorsement.
“We will continue to sell our breath of fresh air agenda to Lagosians with the promise of a better tomorrow. Lagos needs a breath of fresh air.”