Ignore Reports Saying Tinubu Endorsing Hamzat For Governorship – Jandor

Jandor

Former Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate Abdulazeez Adediran, a.k.a Jandor, has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu has endorsed Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat as the preferred All Progressives Congress candidate for the 2027 Lagos governorship election. He recently had his say during Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Maintaining that neither a presidential endorsement nor a formal declaration of interest from Hamzat himself has been made, he pushed back against the growing narrative that the race had already been settled in Hamzat’s favour.

Jandor concluded by saying that aspirants like himself would be the first to receive formal communication if such a decision had been made.

His words, “He hasn’t even said to us himself that he is running. He is the deputy governor of Lagos, qualified, with over 20 years of experience in that space.

No, the President hasn’t endorsed anyone. I am an aspirant, and we are a few people also gunning for this. We will be the first set of people to know if there is anything like that because communication will come.

As we speak, the party says it’s going to be direct primaries. If tomorrow it says this is what we are doing, we will fall in line. The party is supreme.

Absolutely, because if you don’t believe in yourself, nobody will believe in you. When the President was running for the ticket, he came out to say he wanted to run.”

WOW.