Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the March 11 governorship election in Lagos State, has urged Lagosians, especially the youths, to turn out in large numbers and vote out the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the guber and state assemblies elections instead of being discouraged by the results of the Saturday presidential and National Assembly election.
During a news conference on Wednesday in the Lekki neighbourhood of Lagos State, the LP governorship candidate condemned voter harassment and intimidation as well as the violence that tainted the state’s election last Saturday. Moreover, he gave the security services the responsibility of guarding state voters against thugs’ intimidation and repression.
When the Independent National Electoral Commission didn’t electronically transfer the results, he claimed that votes cast for LP presidential candidate Peter Obi in Lagos were tampered with.
“This was not a tribal victory. We won in places where the opposition has never won in two decades; we won in Alimosho, we won in Ikeja and several other places,”
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“From our situation room, we see that we won over 900, 000 votes and this was all because you came out. This was won without any voter inducement. We cannot stop thanking the good people of Lagos. We made history in that election; we took Lagos State and restored it back to the people.
“We unequivocally reject the process by which the results were announced because it was not electronically as promised by INEC,” he said.
Wale Oluwo, a former commissioner in the Akinwunmi Ambode government and the Boot Party’s candidate for governor of Lagos, resigned in favour of Rhodes-Vivour in February.
Rhodes-Vivour said, “We’re engaging with the owners of the structures of the PDP, the people that matter in the PDP,” when asked if he is considering new partnerships with opposition parties to ensure success at the polls.
