The Lagos State Executive Committee (SEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Abdul-Azeez “Jandor” Adediran, who recently returned to the ruling party, that he will not regret joining it.

Mr Adediran, the convener of the Lagos4Lagos movement, was the 2023 PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State and resigned from the party on March 3, citing indiscipline and betrayal by party leaders.

The state APC chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, gave the assurance on Tuesday when Mr Adediran led his Lagos4Lagos team to the state party secretariat to meet the party’s executive committee officially.

Welcoming Mr Adediran back to APC, the chairman said, ” We were together, driving this party and growing this party before; it was just a matter of conviction that led to what happened.

“Realising that he (Adediran) has a role to play as an indigene of the state now that we approach the 2027 general elections, he has decided to be part of us.

“I want to assure you that you have taken the right step. This is your party.”

“I am pretty sure the step taken today, April 29, won’t be regretted. We have accepted his reunion into the party. I bet you, you won’t regret the step taken.”

Mr Ojelabi, accompanied by members of the APC state exco, said the party had put machinery in place to reintegrate Mr Adediran and accommodate his structure in the APC.

Describing Mr Adediran’s return to APC as historic, the chairman said he first got the hint of his return from the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

He said the party would soon schedule a stakeholders’ meeting to announce to the entire APC members that Mr Adediran and his followers had become full party members.

Earlier, Mr Adediran said, “We have come to brief Mr Chairman of the plan for the mass declaration and official movement into the APC in our usual manner, which we are going to announce very soon.

“We have come to join our numerical strength to that of the existing party strength to ensure that we keep winning for Nigerians.

“Our focus is to see how we can dismantle all the gang-ups in the name of a coalition against Mr President and work to return as President of Nigeria in 2027.”

On his political ambition, Mr Adediran said he would continue to exercise his constitutional rights in all elections.

He said he had not come to the party to fight for positions or to dislodge anyone but to ensure APC continues to win both at the centre and the state level.

“We are ready to submit ourselves to the party’s constitution,” he added.

(NAN)