"No government can control a landlord," says PDP's Deji Doherty on Lagos rents

PDP figure Deji Doherty has said that no government can control landlords in Lagos, and that what his side would do instead is rent the houses itself. The remarks were reported by P.M. News on 8 November 2026.

P.M. News quoted him as saying: "There is no government that can control a landlord. What we are going to do is we are going to rent those houses ourselves, and you can now come to rent them from us if you want to."

The source text supplied does not say where or when he spoke, what prompted the comment, or how the plan to rent the houses would work or be funded. It also carries no reaction from landlords, tenants, the Lagos State Government or the PDP itself. Further details have not been independently confirmed.