2027: Rhodes-Vivour Rules Out Aligning With Tinubu To Become Lagos Governor

Former Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the 2023 elections in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV), has dismissed any chance of aligning with the political structure of President Bola Tinubu to enable him to become the governor of Lagos State in 2027.

Rhodes-Vivour disclosed this when he appeared as a guest on ‘Sunday Politics’, a current affairs programme of Channels TV on Sunday night, September 7. He stressed that it would be a complete waste of time for him to embrace the Tinubu structure that he described as violent.

Responding to a question on such prospects, he said: “No, I will rather go and focus on my business, my work, and my family than aligning with Tinubu, which 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.

“Any party that will not allow me to maximise the commonwealth of Lagos for the benefit of its people is a complete waste of time.”

GRV, as he is fondly called, accused President Tinubu of using intimidation to silence those who disagree with him in Lagos, adding that time has come for genuine democrats to dismantle the political hegemony that Tinubu erected in Lagos with which the President allegedly hijacked Lagos state for the past 20 years, which has not benefited the state.

LEADERSHIP reports that Rhodes-Vivour had on Saturday defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).