LP Lagos Gov’norshio Candidate Alleges Threat To Life 

• He’s Playing To The Gallery – APC 

THE Lagos State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has raised the alarm over alleged death threats and assassination attempts on his life.

Appearing on Arise TV on Sunday, the governorship candidate stated that he was attacked on Saturday in Epe during one of his campaign trips.  

He said, “There have been lots of threats. We have gotten a lot of intel about potential assassination attempts on my life. Yes, it happened in Epe. 

“We had Honourable Wale Oluwo with us and we also had Hon Najid of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) working with us and they were also shot at in Epe yesterday.”

But reacting to the allegation, the All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesman in Lagos,  Hon. Seye Oladejo, in a statement, said it was  “irresponsible politics to recklessly continue to heat up the polity in the name of politicking by levelling allegations that could throw the general public into panic”. 

In the rebuttal titled, “Re: Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour Alleges Threat To Life”, the party insists it was not enough to allege, but more important to take measures to formally complain to the appropriate authorities over a matter as serious as a threat to life. 

“It remains the constitutional duty of the police to investigate crimes, effect arrests and prosecute. 

“There’s no doubt that resorting to media sensationalism is suspicious of the real intention of the allegedly threatened. 

“As a party, Lagos State APC holds dearly the sanctity of human life and the right of citizens to co-exist without molestation amid due respect to the benevolent host community. 

“Lagos State, since the advent of this dispensation, has remained the most peaceful and secured in the country due to the priority attention accorded to the issue of security of lives and properties of all citizens by successive administration in the state”.

The party further said that during the current electioneering period, the state has not recorded any serious security breach “despite the hostility and provocation unleashed on  Lagosians’  sensibilities through mindless campaigns based on tribe, religion and other sundry issues quite alien to our culture and tradition”. 

“We wish to state clearly that Chinedu is merely holding to straws having been exposed as a candidate lacking the requisite knowledge, commitment, exposure, wherewithal and maturity to aspire to the highest office in the state. 

“He has been exposed as a tribal bigot and a religious fanatic who is determined to put a knife on the rope that ties us together. 

“His record of effortlessly potting from his old party after losing the primaries to his new bedfellows is certainly not representative of the new Nigerian leadership craved by all and sundry, especially the youths. It smacks of crass opportunism bordering on mindless desperation. 

“We have no doubt that he is afraid of his shadows as we count down to the governorship election when reality will displace fiction”.