The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just-concluded 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi has further drummed support for the candidacy of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour aka GRV in the Saturday’s Governorship election in Lagos state.
According to Obi, GRV is a fastastic guy with no experience in corruption.
Obi made the endorsement while speaking on Arise TV, monitored by The New Diplomat.
Obi also said age and experience have nothing to do with credibility of a candidate, saying that there were many who came into governance without having any experience and performed well.
In his words, “When I was campaigning to be governor of Anambra State, I never worked in government and I never had anything to do with government. I was facing the same thing, I was his (GRV) age. I started campaigning in 2003. In 2001 I was just 39 years and by the time the election took place, I was 41,42. So I was at that age. And it was the same thing, people were saying “who is he”?. “He has never worked with government before”, “he doesn’t have the experience”. Meanwhile, the only experience they can claim is the same experience of corruption, experience of stealing. Infact, it is good to bring somebody who doesn’t have that experience so he can clean up the mess. I came in without an experience.
“And I keep telling my people, why will the governor of Anambra have a lodge in Abuja? they said because every state has it, I said well, we can’t because Anambra governor doesn’t rule in Abuja.
“So, the experience they have is the one of corruption,” he added.
Rhodes-Vivour who will be slogging it with incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress and Olajide Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party, has suffered a flurry of vitriols from opposition parties’ supporters who have continued to question his Yoruba-Igbo heritage amid his struggles to speak the Yoruba language.
But Rhodes-Vivour had on many occasions, insisted that his family heritage in Lagos dates back to four centuries, saying it’s time for an indigenous ‘Omo Eko’ to govern the Southwest state.
