Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, Governorship candidate of the Labour Party has called on Lagosians not to allow selfish politicians divide them ahead of the next week Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections. Speaking while featuring on Channels Television Programme on Thursday, the LP candidate declared that politicians are out to divide residents of the state. According to him, Lagos state has been in harmony for a long time only for politicians to use ethnicity and tribalism to divide residents.
Some persons believed to be supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC had challenged Rhodes-Vivour’s citizenship of the state. Rhodes-Vivour whose father is Yoruba and mother Igbo is gaining acceptance among Yoruba and non-Yoruba residents of Lagos State ahead of the election. According to him, politicians always try to use ethnicity to divide people only during elections. He opined that when social activists including the Yoruba nation’s agitator, Sunday Igboho were battling with herders who invaded the region some months ago, the politicians were not heard.
He said, “Lagos State has been in harmony for a long time. What happens is politicians try to divide us. Let us be wary of politicians who remember that they are Yoruba when it is time for politics.
“When Fulani herdsmen were making incursions into Oyo and people like Sunday Igboho, and Rotimi Akeredolu stood up, a lot of politicians in Lagos were quiet. They played politics with it. “When it was time for Amotekun, they were quiet.
“They were quiet on so many interests of the Yoruba people because they wanted an alliance with the north. So, they put their political interest above the interest of their people. And all of a sudden, it is election time and they are reminding you that this person does not speak Yoruba.”
