2023 Lagos Politics Trail Funke Akindele’s Woes

By GWG Staff

The quick trial and conviction of Mrs. Funke Akindele-Bello and her husband, Abdulrasheed Bello for violating the Lagos State quarantine law is pushing theories of a political agenda.

It has emerged that Jenifa as the popular artiste is known lives in Amen Estate which is owned by the 2019 governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi.

Gbadamosi has recently returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in preparation for a possible bid for the 2023 governorship contest.

Gbadamosi is presently reckoned as the strongest political force in the PDP with the capacity to raise a challenge against the dominance of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state.

Remarkably, Gbadamosi had been one of the leading critics of the Lagos administration flaying among others the ban on Okada, the land use tariff among others.

It has been alleged that the trial of the star actress and her husband was made to suppress whatever political potential he may bring to challenge the APC.

“I am convinced that Gbadamosi is the real target. Funke Akindele and her husband were simply used as a decoy to get at him. While it is true that he (Gbadamosi) committed the offence, because the law says ‘stay-at-home and don’t interact’,” Abiodun Dabiri, who was the governorship candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party, ANRP, told The Guardian.

That assertion was further asserted by the publicity secretary of the PDP in Lagos State, Mr. Taofeek Gani who told The Guardian that the APC was fidgeting over the moves of one of the PDP’s strongest aspirants.

“We are not in doubt that the agenda was to get at Gbadamosi, who is the owner of the estate where the party held.”

According to Gani, Gbadamosi’s “only crime was to have owned up that he was at Akindele-Bello’s house in the morning, which was not enough for the state to arraign him if there are no other motives.

“We won’t be surprised if the lady is made to provide a doctored video showing Gbadamosi’s presence at the party,” he continued.

“We believe this law will die naturally today if the government, for whatever reason or excuse, convicted our member.”

The APC, however, pooh-poohed the claims saying that Gbadamosi was politically insignificant to warrant such actions.

Mr. Seye Oladejo, the publicity secretary of the APC said:

“I disagreed with that because he has never been a force to reckon with in the political calculations of Lagos. Gbadamosi himself issued a release apologising for what he did, but there is no sentiment in law. If such a character becomes governor, who knowingly violates laws, what would you expect of him?”

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