Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran, aka Jandor, and his running mate, Funke Akindele, who is a Nollywood Actress, have visited an Igbo widow, Dorothy Dike, one of the victims of the recently auctioned 134 cars impounded for traffic offences by the Lagos State Government.
TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the Lagos state government through its Ministry of Justice and The state Taskforce, organised the public auction of over 134 abandoned and forfeited vehicles, at Lagos State Task Force’ headquarters, Alausa, Ikeja, where a crowd of auctioneers, agents, buyers and vehicle owners tried to outwit one another.
Dike (widow) and her son, Osinachi Ndukwe, were reduced to tears in Lagos when their only vehicle bought at the rate of N1.8.million on hired purchase was being auctioned for N450,000.
In a video making the rounds on social media, PDP Guber candidate Jandor and Funke paid Ndukwe and his mother Dorothy a visit at their home in an undisclosed area in Lagos.
Ndukwe said he bought the vehicle which was impounded at the rate of N1.8 million on hired purchase.
According to him, he was sentenced to three months imprisonment for driving against traffic and lost his three-year-old daughter during his jail term due to non-availability of funds to cater for her health.
Reacting, Jandor said he and his running mate visited so they could assist Ndukwe and his family get back on their feet.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State chapter has criticised Jandor and Funke’s visit to the widow and her son.
Reacting, the deputy governorship candidate of PDP in Lagos said that “taking ones means of livelihood in the name of penalty for traffic offences is inhumane.”
Funke Akindele said this in an Instagram post on Sunday adding that the visit was not aimed at encouraging people to break the law.
according to Jandor, although he was not encouraging disregard for the state’s laws, a penalty should not take away people’s means of livelihood.
But the APC in a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Seye Oladejo, said the PDP candidates “have graduated from playing politics with human lives to blatantly encouraging the break down of law and order in our dear state.”
In a counter statement, spokesman for the JANDOR4Governor Campaign Organisation, Gbenga Ogunleye, said the APC was “demonising the act of succour being given to the victims of their anti-people policies.”