The Nation Newspaper Jandor, a mole in PDP, says O’Dairo
, also known as Jandor, claimed to be the leader of the chapter, but party chieftains have challenged that claim. In an interview by Assistant Editor EMMANUEL BADEJO with Dr. Seye O’Dairo, the candidate’s former director-general, says the claim shows a lack of understanding and that Jandor is a mole in the party.
If you say his statement should not be taken seriously, being your governorship, does he wield enormous influence on the Lagos PDP? Yes, I was his campaign DG. I accepted to serve simply because I’m a core PDP loyalist and the party comes first to me; in all situations, the party comes first. You can’t know people until you move so close to them. In the course of my relationship with him, I came to understand that Jandor never really wanted to win that election.
Could it be that he didn’t use some of the offices donated for him for campaign due to paucity of funds? As the election moved closer, it was getting clearer to me and some others that we would lose because our candidate’s carriage showed it. Honestly, some of us started to think that he was out to undermine the PDP. It will surprise you that our candidate during the presidential election didn’t make expected efforts that would have brightened the chances of our candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubarka. For instance, he did not work with the Atiku’s campaign organisations in the state.
I am not aware of any leader making demands of him. The last election was the worst for the PDP in Lagos. Since 1998, we have never recorded such a poor performance. For example, it was the first in the history of Lagos PDP that a governorship candidate will be renting buses for campaign. That has never happened. Did he expect members of his campaign council to be spending their personal money for his campaign activities? We had such a situation in the last governorship election.
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