The Labour Social gathering, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos state for the 2023 basic election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has stated that the social gathering’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is the chief Nigeria wants.
Rhodes-Vivour, talking on the Sincere Bunch Podcast, nevertheless stated Obi just isn’t the politician “we’d like for us”.
“Peter Obi is the chief that we’d like for Nigeria, however not the politician we’d like for us,” he stated.
Rhodes-Vivour additionally insisted “Peter (Obi) doesn’t purchase votes. He gained Lagos with out shopping for votes.”
Obi completed in third place throughout final 12 months’s polls, behind President Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.
On his half, Rhodes-Vivour misplaced the gubernatorial election to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Rhodes-Vivour challenged the election outcome all the way in which to the Supreme Court docket, the place a five-member panel in a unanimous judgment delivered in January 2024, affirmed the declaration of Sanwo-Olu because the winner of the March 18, 2023 governorship election, after dismissing two separate appeals difficult his victory.
