Lagos guber: Why I’ll never align with Tinubu – Rhodes-Vivour

By Omodele Adigun

Lagos State 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has shared the reason he would not align with President Bola Tinubu in a bid to win the 2027 governorship election.

According to the former governorship candidate, joining force with Tinubu to win Lagos gubernatorial seat would be a total waste of time.

Rhodes-Vivour, who said this on Sunday, when he was responding to questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television, stressed that it would be a complete waste of time for him to do so.

“I will rather go and focus on my business, my work, and my family. That [aligning with Tinubu] will be a complete waste of time.

“The reason why we are in politics is to make the lives of Lagosians better; it is to restore Lagos to its old glory — glory that a lot of people might not really be familiar with in terms of the history of Lagos, and the greatness that Lagos once was,” said on Sunday, when responding to questions in an interview on Channels Television.

The politician further stated that any party that would not allow him to maximise the commonwealth of Lagos for the benefit of its people is a complete waste of time.

According to him, Lagos would be better if the domination of what he termed as “agberocracry” was expunged.

Rhodes-Vivour, who recently defected from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, said his decision is to square up to the ruling party.

He also said that the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, was aware of his decision to move to the ADC.

When asked if he would run for the Lagos State governorship election in 2027 on the platform of the ADC, he said, “by God’s grace.”