The All Progressives Congress has mocked star actress, Funke Akindele, and the Peoples Democratic Party over her emergence as its governorship candidate’s running mate.
Dr. Abdulaziz Olajide Adediran aka Jandor, who defected from the APC, had announced Akindele as his running mate, with the actress also saying she was committed to the process.
But the APC in Lagos said they were trivialising governance by making the actress popularly known as Jenifa the running mate.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo, it notes:
“This amounts to trivialising 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.
“Congratulations in advance to the duo of Governor Babajide SANWOOLU-olu and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat.”
