Former Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, has expressed shock over the endorsement of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, by businessman Femi Otedola.

Otedola, who is the Chairman of Forte Oil Plc, was, only last month, rumoured to be running for governor on the platform of the PDP, a report which he neither denied nor confirmed.



Media entrepreneur, Mr. Dele Momodu, had said in September that Otedola had privately confirmed to him that he would be contesting the governorship seat.

However, in a post on his official Instagram handle on Saturday, Otedola said, “Dinner at my residence yesterday evening with my childhood friend, APC governorship candidate, Jide Sanwo-Olu; the governor in waiting.”

George, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, expressed bewilderment at Otedola’s support for the APC governorship candidate.

The PDP Board of Trustees member said, “That is news to me. That is very interesting. Wonders will never cease. It is very shocking.”

When asked to comment on Otedola’s purported governorship ambition, George stated, “He has always been with us (PDP). I will call him. I will find out that ‘Ki lo ri? Ki lo se? (What did you see? What did you do?)’ That is strange.”

He, however, added that Otedola’s endorsement of the opposition would not influence the strategies of the PDP in Lagos.

The PDP chieftain said, “No, it doesn’t affect our strategies towards 2019 because he is not in our camp. But it is a shocking. He is my aburo (junior) and I am going to find out from him what made him (endorse Sanwo-Olu).



“But he is a thoroughbred Lagosian and the people Bola (Tinubu) is handpicking are all from Ogun State. Is that what he wants for his state? I will ask him.”

He is my aburo (junior) and I am going to find out from him what made him (endorse Sanwo-Olu).

icon007:
Even if Ote$ were to be pdp candidate, he will still support Sanwo olu

PDP not in lag

Toosure70:
Flatheaders are in trouble.

SEGLIZ:
he has always being with pdp,
he is not in our camp it won't affect our strategy,
I'm getting the drift here!?
invisibly the guy don port,
the guy don cross carpet,
the guy don defect.
which you choose learn to leave with it.

this man is a businessman you don't expect him to protect your party at the expense of his own empire. they administer lagos so he got to protect his interest.

python2gbera:
Bode George, you've failed at it. As long as Sanwo is Yoruba, even if he comes from Togo, Ogun or wherever, he stands a very big chance of being the Governor of Lagos. We ain't cut out for
Intra-tribal social discrimination and repression which is finely poised among the idiotic pigs of biafra.

-python2