Lagos 2023: PDP Is Not Serious, APC Slams Funke Akindele’s Nomination

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Wednesday, July 13th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos has opened up concerning the nomination of popular actress, Funke Akindele as the running mate to Dr. Abdulaziz Olajide Adediran aka Jandor, the governorship flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party in Lagos.

The PDP in a statement signed by its party’s spokesperson, Seye Oladejo on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, stated that the choice of the Nollywood actress “underscores the unseriousness of Lagos state PDP”.

Oladejo stated that the opposition party did not just present a former APC member as its governorship candidate but also “went to the make-believe industry to fetch a deputy”.

He said, “This amounts to trivializing the importance of the forthcoming gubernatorial elections by giving political neophytes who have absolutely nothing to bring to the table their electoral tickets.

“It also shows lack of depth in the party as regards quality members to put forward for elections if they could give a member who crossed-carpeted a few days before their primaries the governorship ticket and now went to the make-believe industry to fetch a deputy.

“The reason for voters’ apathy is, undoubtedly, due to lack of credible alternatives by the moribund opposition party.

“I was amused to read that the deputy governorship candidate said she was suspending her acting career for the elections whose result is highly predictable. I guess she’s suspending a lot more because she has been in the news of recent for all the wrong reasons.

“Lagosians will certainly not allow governance to be turned to a needless experiment or a sitcom. Governance is serious business not a circus.”