Why PDP Should Collapse Its Lagos Structure For Me – Rhodes-Vivour

Labour Party’s (LP) Lagos gubernatorial candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has stated that he anticipates the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to collapse its structure for him in an effort to save Lagos.

He said this in an exclusive interview with Politics Hub, a Vanguard online TV’s show on Tuesday.

He also expressed hope that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will oversee a transparent electoral process, while stating that he is “prepared for the worse”.

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He said: “I have a relationship with the PDP. I came from the PDP. I was in the PDP for six years. I was the senatorial candidate for PDP in 2019.

“They promised us electronic transmission of votes, that did not happen. We saw the intimidation and harassment, and manipulations at the ward collation, LG collation.

“So we need everybody to work together to save and rescue Lagos. We are in talks with several parties.

“A few parties have collapsed their structures for us. I expect that the PDP would do the same very soon.”

On INEC, he remarked, “We have got an injunction and a court order to mandate the INEC to follow its rules that it has set out and failure to do that, the entire election is null and void.

“So they must do the election transmission of voting from the polling units. That is on one hand.

“On the other hand; we know that a lot of these people might be compromised. Just like the last election, it was very shameful, to say the least.

“So we are hoping for the best but we are prepared for the worst, and we are moving into this election with the idea that what happened previously will repeat itself again. So we are ready for any outcome.”

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Fondly called GRV, Rhodes-Vivour also called out the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for evading public debates, saying it is ‘disrespectful’ of a governor who ‘owes it to the people’ to ‘account for his stewardship’.

He dismissed rumours questioning his ethnic heritage to Lagos, describing it as an insult to a Rhodes-Vivour.

“I mean it’s an insult, it’s a big insult first of all. The Governor is actually extremely disrespectful; he is extremely disrespectful to Lagosians because after they gave him the position for four years, you owe it to them to come and account for your stewardship. Be it a debate or whatever.