A Twitter user posted a video interview of Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly called Jandor, with the claim that he rejected Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) as his running mate for not being capable.
This is coming three days before the March 18 gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections in Lagos state.
Jandor and Gbadebo are both governorship candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) respectively.
The tweet, posted on March 14, has since garnered over 37,000 views, 56 retweets and 144 likes as of when it was retrieved from Twitter.
“Gbadebo chinedu was brought by a God father for jandor as a deputy, but he was rejected for not being capable..the same foolish boy talking about God father was brought by a God father and went to LP because he was not given deputy governor slot,” the caption to the post read.
Claim: Jandor said Gbadebo was rejected as his running mate in PDP for not being capable.
Verification
Findings by the CDD Election War Room show that the claim is misleading.
We found that the Twitter user lifted the said video from the TikTok page of Daddy Freeze, convener of ‘Free The Sheeple’, who hosted the interview.
We, however, traced the full version of the video to the verified Instagram page of Daddy Freeze.
We analysed the 1 hour 45 minutes-long recorded live session. We can confirm that Jandor did not say in the interview that Gbadebo was rejected as his running mate for lack of capability.
In the video, Jandor explained why he left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick the governorship ticket of the opposition PDP after serving as a consultant to the Lagos state government.
According to him, he started his governorship ambition in APC but left due to the godfatherism said to be a major issue in the party.
He said after he won the PDP ticket, a leader in the party told him to make Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour his running mate, but he vehemently contested it. The party’s national leadership asked that Rhodes-Vivour submit an application for the position like every other interested person.
Gbadebo applied as instructed but Jandor decided to choose Funke Akindele, saying he chose to avoid the issue of godfatherism, for which he left the APC.
Rhodes-Vivour has since joined the Labour Party and is the party’s guber candidate for the March governorship election in Lagos state.
Verdict
The claim that Rhodes-Vivour was rejected as Jandor’s running mate because he was incapable is misleading; We checked and can confirm that Jandor said in the interview that he chose Funke Akindele because a leader in the PDP wanted to impose Gbadebo on him. He said the party leader is a friend of Gbadebo’s father.
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