PDP canvases Sanwo-Olu, promises second term ticket

The Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State has advised the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to join the party in order to return the office for the second term. 

A chieftain of the party, Barrister, Ganiu Taofik, revealed this while speaking on Thursday. 

Taofik who is the former PDP spokesman in Lagos said, “Recently, we had a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Olajide Adediran aka Jandol, decamp with his group, Lagos4Lagos, into the PDP. This is because they have confidence and they have seen that the PDP is a better platform.

“Governor Sanwo-Olu probably could have done 100 per cent more than he has done if he were not to be in the APC because it is a structural thing; the PDP in Lagos has a controlling leadership for sanity, morality and service delivery but what they have in the APC is a selfish leadership. That is why Governor Sanwo-Olu cannot do more than what he is doing.

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“If Governor Sanwo-Olu is checking to have a ticket to recontest, we will give him the opportunity to contest the primary election in the PDP like every other aspirant. Everybody has a level playing field in the PDP, unlike the APC where nobody can become a councillor without the leader’s support.

“The PDP has a wide umbrella to cover every politician from the House of Assembly to the House of Representative and others.”

There are speculations that Sanwo-Olu may not return for the second term based on the plans of some forces in APC.

Speaking further, Taofik said “I think we are doing a very good job, I dare say so. I think the citizens know what it is they will be missing if they don’t let us continue to wrap up all the things we are doing,” Sanwo-Olu said in a recent interview when asked if he has any plan to throw his hat into the ring in the next election.”