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Abdul-Azeez Adediran, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, has insisted that he will not step down for any candidate.

Speaking with journalists on Thursday, Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, said the PDP is not forming an alliance with any party ahead of Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections.

The PDP candidate said he had moved around the 245 wards in the state to sell his candidacy to the people of Lagos.

“We are here stating that all the rumours that are out there purportedly being sold by some people in some quarters are nothing but false,” he said.

“Lagos PDP is not in alliance with any political party.

“As the candidate of the party, I have not stepped down for anybody, we are not stepping down for anybody, and we are not going to step down for anybody.

“There has not been any formal meeting between Lagos PDP and any political party as such, to say that we are on a round-table discussing alliance.

“We have traversed everywhere in the state and we have been able to sell our candidacy which is a radical departure from the stereotyped norm to everybody in Lagos.

“What we need Lagos residents to do in this coming election is to take a critical look at all of us running for this office and make their choice in a free and fair election.”

Adediran is contesting against Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) on March 18.

BODE GEORGE-LED GROUP ENDORSES RHODES-VIVOUR

On Thursday, the Omo Eko Pataki group, led by Bode George, a PDP chieftain, endorsed Rhodes-Vivour.

The group endorsed Rhodes-Vivour during an event in Ikoyi.

The event was attended by members of the LP and PDP and the motion for his endorsement was moved and adopted.

Speaking at the event, George said the group was established to ensure free and fair elections in Lagos.

“On this premise, Omo Eko Pataki group, a new socio-political movement, is born to ensure that our electoral process in Lagos will be free, fair, and just,” he said.

“We insist on the use of electronic transfer of results rather than the unreliable, archaic, manual system.

“Our dear state shall under God have a new birth of freedom, that the government of the people, the government by the people, and the government for the people shall never perish in our state.”