Lagos governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olajide Adediran aka Jandor is yet to announce his running mate, the party said on Wednesday.
Lagos PDP publicity secretary Hakeem Amode told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in reaction to the reported emergence of actress Funke Akindele as Jandor’s running mate that the party was not aware of such development.
“It is not in my place to announce who the running mate to our governorship candidate, Jandor, is. Let us wait for the candidate himself to announce,” he said.
“Has the candidate of the party announced anywhere that he has picked his own running mate?
“What you are reading online on this, is it from the candidate of the party?
“The candidate of the party will announce who his running mate is and he has not done that. We should wait for the official announcement,” Amode added.
The party’s spokesman added that he could not also confirm the choice of Funke Akindele as the running mate of the party’s governorship candidate.
According to him, it is the candidate, not the party, that will announce who the running mate will be just like the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar did when he announced Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta as his running mate for the 2023 election.
“He will do that in no time and you all will hear. I will not confirm anything, the candidate of the party will do so,” he said.
