Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party candidate for governor in Lagos State, has pledged to cover the medical expenses of his supporters who were hurt during the violence that marred the polls there last Saturday.
Rhodes-Vivour reiterated his earlier assertion that his supporters had been denied voting rights throughout the state after rejecting the announcement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress as the poll’s victor.
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The LP candidate, who addressed newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday, said;
Yesterday, 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 body with deep cuts, fractured legs and many more.
I reach out to you to say I am with you. I feel your pain. Myself and the deputy governor are by your side. We have launched the platform ‘GRV cares 2023’ and anyone who has suffered violence should upload their picture, hospital bills and police report and we will help offset these bills.
While calling on Lagos indigenes to speak out, he added that;
There 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.
Lagosians, our enemies are not our neighbours or visitors, or fellow Lagosian with diverse tongues. Our common enemy is violence, insecurity, poverty, stagnation, corruption, and underdevelopment. It is these same people responsible for these, that have weaponised poverty and ethnicity to distract us from their evil endeavors and diabolical activities.
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.
