By Adesina Soyooye
Barrister Olawale Rhodes-Vivour, father of the Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has asked Lagosians to ignore the campaign of calumny against his son, and vote massively for him during the Governorship Election now scheduled against March 18, 2023.
The younger Rhodes-Vivour has been a victim of all kinds of campaign of calumny since his Party’s Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, defeated the Candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, now the President-elect.
Addressing a Press Conference on Wednesday in Lagos where he endorsed his son’s aspiration, Barrister Rhodes-Vivour said his son has capacity and is rugged.
He revealed that his son is an activist who detests all kinds of injustice, but he debunked the claim that the Governorship Candidate is a supporter of the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB. He, also, lamented the blackmail that the Igbo would take over Lagos if his son won and asked where that was coming from. “My son is Yoruba”, he emphasized.
“If you come out en masse and vote”, he charged Lagosians, “it is possible to overcome evil.”
He said, at the very well- attended Press Conference where the Rhodes-Vivour family and the cream of Afenifere Elders were present that:
“If we can see the writing on the wall, that it is possible to prevail against evil, then, please, come out on the the 11th (now 18th) of March and make it a resounding victory for all of us.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, come out on the 11th (18th). We have put in place strategies.
“We are going to be proactive and not reactive on the 11th (18th), because if we got 900,000 votes and you gave us 500,000 votes, even though we beat you, still affect the overall turnout of the situation.
“Gbadebo is my son. Gbadebo is not a politician, he is an activist. That is the core character of Gbadebo. When he came out of school, he was busy leading marches to the legislature, he was debating with the Minister of Agriculture.
“My son is rugged enough to finish what he started.
Gbadebo, at heart, is just a good man because he reacts violently to anything negative.
“During his activism, he realized that it is difficult to change things as an activist and he decided to go back to school to have a Masters in Political Science.”
Aside from the incumbent Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Rhodes-Vivour is also facing the Governor Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olajide Adediran, popular as Jandor.
The Governorship Election earlier scheduled for March 11, 2023, has been shifted to March 18 for Logistic reasons.
