Chief Segun Adewale, the PDP candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District in the 2023 elections, says a former Deputy National Chairman of the party,Chief Olabode George,is not his political benefactor.
Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland, made this assertion in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.
He was reacting to a claim allegedly made by George, also a member of the party’s Board of Trustees (BOT), that he (George)had been supporting his political aspirations and had helped his political career.
Adewale said he was dismayed by the claim and others concerning him, which he said George made on national TV .
Adewale, a former Lagos PDP Chairman, said: “Chief Olabode George’s claim of providing support for my political career is false .
“The claim lacks any substance or evidence. I have hardly been on the same divide with George in the party because of our ideological differences.
“Bode George was rather chasing shadows in the interview instead of addressing the damning allegations of anti-party activity.
“The diversionary tactic of false claims of helping my political aspirations will not yield any fruit.”he said
On George’s claim that he asked a candidate to step down for him in 2023, Adewale said that the candidate in question actively took part in the primary election against him.
“What a laughable claim!Nothing could be farther from the truth about Chief Bode George asking someone to step down for me,” he said.
He said that George never had the interest of the party at heart ,saying while was busy pursuing southern presidency in 2023, supporting candidates of other parties, he (Adewale) and the party governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) aligned with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate.
He said: “Nothing could be farther from the truth about Chief Bode George asking someone to step down for me.
“We rarely agree on issues since I joined the party because of his anti-party tendencies.
“Even when I became the chairman of this party in 2017, he (Bode George) opposed me vehemently and protested against my chairmanship by mobilising his supporters to move to Labour Party”.
Adewale said George had never used his influence in any capacity to give him any party position.
He noted that he had to defer to George’s age and position in the party even when they had political differences.
