“No Healing without justice”- Rhodes-Vivour replies Tinubu

The governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, yesterday, told the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that healing could not happen without justice. He said that a free and fair election might not be possible under his presidency.

While speaking from his office in Victoria Island, Lagos, Rhodes-Vivour bemoaned the lack of democracy in the outcomes of the House of Assembly and governorship elections held last Saturday, March 18, 2023. He stated that many voters were attacked, injured, and intimidated while others died as a result of these actions.

Rhodes-Vivour stated that because the All-Progressives Congress (APC), which is currently in power in Lagos State, was unable to run a campaign based on its accomplishments, it fueled ethnic unrest. He also stated that INEC’s reputation, which had been established over the previous four years, had been completely destroyed.

He said that the common enemies of the people were violence, insecurity, poverty, stagnation, corruption and under-development, adding that the same people responsible for these vices weaponized poverty and ethnicity to distract the people from their evil endeavors and diabolical activities.

He said: “Yesterday (Tuesday), I spent my day visiting victims of Saturday’s state-backed terrorism and violence from Abule-Ado to Surulere, Apapa and Ikeja. I met with young men and women with bullets lodged in their bodies with deep cuts and fractured legs, among others. I feel their pains.

“The APC unleashed evil on Lagosians, diabolically with their fetish rites and curses during the day, and physical violence against all Lagosians. Yet, they want the peace of a graveyard, they want the healing of the dead.

“We cannot afford to have an “Agberocracy” or a military type of government that will use violence and diabolical means to create a one-party state from Ikoyi to Ikeja to Ikorodu. We were all disenfranchised.

“For the ambition of one man, we saw our traditional institutions reduced to pawns, tools. Oro rites that are done at night were done during the day, invoking in broad daylight the spell that has been used to keep Lagos abound.

“This was no election, it was violence on multiple levels, diabolically and physically. On this ambition, they sowed seeds that could potentially lead to outcome like the Rwandan genocide.

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“They have tried to destroy years of delicately balanced ethnic relations, years of inter-marriage and friendships, years of commerce and years of building Lagos into the economic juggernaut that it is.

“I call on the silent majority, decent and cultured Lagosians, indigenous Lagosians and Lagosians at large to speak out. It is enough of the worst of us defining the rest of us. On Saturday, we saw their vision for Lagos and Agberocracy and we will fight through all legal channels to birth our Lagos.”