According to the APC, the opposition party resorted to the entertainment business to find a deputy.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos has reacted to the choice of popular actress Funke Akindele as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos, Dr. Abdulaziz Olajide Adediran nicknamed Jandor.
The party's spokeswoman, Seye Oladejo, said in a statement on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, that Akindele's selection as a deputy governorship candidate "underscores the unseriousness of Lagos state PDP."
Oladejo claimed that the opposition party not only nominated a former APC member for governor, but also "went to the make-believe industry to acquire 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”.
He did, however, congratulate Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, on the next governorship election in 2023.
