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  • Guber: Approach Tribunal – Lagos APC tells GRV

    Guber: Approach Tribunal – Lagos APC tells GRV

    The APC in Lagos State has advised the Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, to approach the courts for redress,  on the outcome of the March 18 governorship elections.

    The Lagos APC Publicity Secretary, Mr. Seye Oladejo, in a statement on Thursday, said the LP  candidate should accept defeat rather than expressing bitterness, accusations, and his distractions against the ruling party.

    “Lagos residents will not appreciate further distractions from you (Rhodes-Vivour) as Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu focuses on finishing strong and prepares for a greater Lagos in the next dispensation.

    “You may, however, wish to approach the courts and put a stop to this immature grand standing,” the APC spokesman said.

    Oladejo advised the LP candidate to rather than tender apologies to Lagos residents, he had allegedly assaulted their sensibilities in the months leading to the elections.

    He alleged that the LP candidate campaign was characterised by unpretentious hate, religious bigotry, and tribal rhetorics.

    Oladejo added: “He has refused to be sober and still has the effrontery to play the victim.

    “It is baffling that the law enforcement agencies have not invited him for questioning for his incitement and call for anarchy because he lost an election.

    “We found it amazing that his understanding of justice and fairness is when he wins an election by merely leveraging on opportunism and unsustainable spur of the moment.”

    According to him, during the electioneering, Lagos residents laboured in vain to identify Rhodes-Vivour’s selling points, pedigree, and the substance of his manifesto.

    He said that a campaign based on blind, uninformed, and bitter criticism of the ruling party without a credible alternative could only end in failure.

    The spokesman said: “It is now clear to all and sundry that his interpretation of free and fair elections is only when he wins.

    “It was convenient to ignore incidents of violent attacks and killings of the APC supporters across the state and play the victim by allegedly visiting unidentifiable and unverifiable patients.”

    He said that Rhodes-Vivour’s apprehension about a free and fair election under Sen. Bola Tinubu’s Presidency showed him as a poor student of history.

    Oladejo said that Tinubu had unmatchable democratic credentials built on many years of sacrifice and painstaking service to our fatherland.

    According to him, by voting Tinubu, Nigerians have opted for a prepared presidency.

    He said that Tinubu’s presidency could only usher in unprecedented development, peace and the restoration of our place of pride in the comity of nations.

    The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Rhodes-Vivour on Wednesday, visited victims of Saturday’s electoral violence in various hospitals in the state.

  • Lagos Guber: LP Candidate, GRV speaks on congratulating Sanwo-Olu

    Lagos Guber: LP Candidate, GRV speaks on congratulating Sanwo-Olu

    Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour the  Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, has vowed never to call or congratulate Governor Babajide Sawno-Olu after being declared winner of the Lagos Guber election.

    According to Rhodes-Vivour, Lagos election was a sham.

    .He spoke while sharing a video at a press conference of how election results were manipulated to favour Sanwo-Olu.

    Rhodes-Vivour said: “The signatures are there, but these results have been tampered with and uploaded. Also, a lot of results are called authentic results, but they are state of assembly results or presidential results. These results are being calculated and announced by INEC. There are so many instances of these, and it won’t stand.

    “We have our own results, which we are in the lead and we will challenge this in a court of law.

    “This was a sham and compromise of an election, it was an illegality that has never been perpetrated in Lagos since I was born.

    “This was an election where an entire agent of a party was chased away from their polling unit. I will never call Babajide Sanwo-Olu to congratulate him for this sham of an election.

    “This has set the precedence for violence in the election as ideas might not be discussed anymore.”

  • Polls: Labour party Lagos guber candidate, GRV reveals what he will do if he loses

    Polls: Labour party Lagos guber candidate, GRV reveals what he will do if he loses

     

    Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party Guber candidate has vowed to seek approach the court if he perceives any form of irregularities in the todays’s Guber and State election in the country.

    The Labour Party candidate, who spoke shortly after casting his vote at his polling unit 045, Oshifila/Abule Igbira in Anifowose, Ikeja, alleged that there are incidences of vote suppression by thugs supporting his opponent.

    According to him, the will of Lagos residents must prevail in the election.

    He said, “The will of the people will prevail. There has been a lot of targeted voter suppression.

    “We have a situation where in Alimosho, in Iba, polling unit materials have not arrived. You find out that everywhere that we are strong and we show strength, polling materials have yet to arrive.

    “I’m not congratulating someone that has his mandate from voter suppression and intimidation. Why would I do that? I will go to court”.

    The incumbent Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is competing against Rhodes-Vivour and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos State, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran better known as Jandor.

    Although there were reports of threats from political thugs, it was observed that the election is enjoying a massive turnout across the state.

  • There are attempts to kill me – Lagos LP guber candidate, Rhodes -Vivour alleges

    There are attempts to kill me – Lagos LP guber candidate, Rhodes -Vivour alleges

    Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the March 18 gubernatorial elections in Lagos state has alleged death threats and assassination attempts on his life.

    The LP Lagos gubernatorial candidate made this known while featuring on a political programme on Arise Television.

    According to the Lagos born politician, that some gunmen suspected to be political thugs attacked some of his allies in the Epe Local Government Area of the state on Saturday.

    “We had Honourable Wale Oluwo with us and we also had Honourable Najid of the PDP working with us and they were also shot at in Epe yesterday.”

    Rhodes-Vivour, who clocked 40 years on Monday, became popular after the LP won the just concluded presidential election in Lagos State.

  • Lagos2019: Celebrities raise concern over battle for soul of Lagos

    Lagos2019: Celebrities raise concern over battle for soul of Lagos

    Ahead of the March 9th Lagos governorship poll, Nigerian celebrities have expressed their views on the forthcoming Lagos gubernatorial elections.

    Back in 2015, Oba Rilwan Akiolu said Lagos residents of Igbo descent must vote for the then governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, or else die in the lagoon.

    Since then, the Lagos governorship has been viewed as a battle between the ruling party in Lagos, APC, the igbos and other political parties. It has moved from being a political battle to becoming a tribal war.

     

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    Lagos guber elections not a tribal war- Gt Da Guitarman, Artiste

    I don’t see the Lagos Gubernatorial election as a tribal war. It’s simply a political battle. We all have people that we are supporting. I think it’s more of a political battle. If we were talking about the Presidential election where we had two major parties pushing northerners as their presidential candidates, we would have called that a tribal battle. The deal breaker was Osinbajo who is a Yoruba and Peter Obi who is an Igbo man.

    That was the difference between the two political parties Presidential candidates coming from the same part of the country and the Vice Presidential candidates coming from other parts of the country. May be so many Igbos must have tilted towards PDP because of Peter Obi and that now spilled into the Lagos Gubernatorial election.

    I feel that it has nothing to do with tribe this time. The major candidates are Yorubas. I am looking forward to the best man winning.

     

     

    The Lagos election violence was a tribal war- Skuki Peeshaun

    One half of singing collective, Skuki, Peeshaun expressed his opinion on the recent violence witnessed in some areas in Lagos during the presidential elections describing it as ‘more of a tribal war than a political battle’.

    The singer took to twitter expressing his thoughts. He said: “This is not a political post or a tribalistic one. It’s an awareness post, so you know the motivation that the political thugs are being fed with.The violence we saw in LAGOS during the presi. I think the Presidential election was more of a TRIBAL WAR than a POLITICAL BATTLE. Pls read on… Do you guys remember in 2015, when the Eze-Ndigbos (Igbo elders) paid a courtesy visit to the Oba of Lagos?

    “There was insinuations from the Igbo elders that the person they wanted for Lagos governor was PDP’s Jimi Agbaje The Oba of Lagos did not like the vibes he was getting and urged the Igbo elders to support his own candidate, which was APC’s Ambode.

    “That was the time the Oba of Lagos said any Igbo person who doesn’t support a peaceful and united Lagos would be thrown into the Lagos lagoon Fast forward to 2019, this GROWING CONFLICT has surfaced again

    “Lagos is the fastest growing among the 36 Nigerian states A lot of Igbos are settled here (Lagos) and they wish to hold higher significant positions in this booming state.

    “Yoruba cultural leaders fear that, if care is not taken, the Igbos would break all cultural barriers and eventually snatch Lagos state from the Yorubas and install only their brothers into powerful positions in the state”.

     

     

     

    It is sad that ethnicity and tribalism are being used to solicit for votes- Ify Ubah, Actress

     

    A couple of days before the presidential elections, someone I met told me bluntly that he knows I will vote PDP (for Peter Obi) because of my tribe.

    It is very sad that ethnicity, and tribalism are now used to solicit for votes, by politicians , which resulted in violence in the presidential and national assembly elections where voter intimidation was rampant in certain areas, ballot papers being burnt. Though talks between the Yoruba community and representatives of the Igbo community has taken place after the presidential elections, there is still a bit of uncertainty concerning the possibility of a free and fair and violence free elections in Igbo dominated communities in Lagos State. I would like the Federal and State government to beef up security on Saturday and a couple of days after the results has been announced

     

     

    I pray for a Nigeria where access to opportunities not based on tribe- Charles Inojie, Actor

    I pray for God’s enablement to use my art to advocate for the common good of all citizens. I eagerly wish to see a Nigeria where access to opportunities is free and equal for all, irrespective of your tribe or religion.

    I wish to see a country where access to basic education is unfettered by debilitating social contradictions. Indeed, I wish that someday soon, political offices shall become so unattractive that only those who truly desire to serve the people would dare seek to be elected.