THE Lagos State Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says Nigerian youths are 90 percent close to taking over governance and having their dream country materialise.
The 40-year-old Rhodes-Vivour, who disclosed this at a meeting, tagged ‘Youth O’ Clock’ in the Lagos State capital Ikeja on Thursday, said: “We know that the goal and what we are going through is far bigger than I and any of us.
“It is a project that will lift the lives of millions of Lagosians and, in turn, lift the lives of many Nigerians. It is a project to free Lagos from the shackles of tyranny; a Lagos State where the inner roads will work, where our people will have quality healthcare, water, quality public education, not one where parents keep struggling trying to find how to pay school fees for their children to go to private school.”
Rhodes-Vivour, who assured Lagos residents of a very bright future if elected, added: “We are already 90 percent there. We need to bring this thing home. I want you to understand that the moment we take Lagos, this fire of a new type of politics will engulf Nigeria.
“You start to find politicians that mean well for the people; that can articulate their vision and be positive about change.
“No more status quo; we are changing the narrative to have a new Lagos and a new Nigeria. We will set a new standard,” Rhodes-Vivour said.
Hailing Nigerian youths for voting for Peter Obi and his running mate Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed in the 25th February presidential election, he said that Mr. Peter Obi and LP were all about empathy and compassion for the suffering people.
Expressing confidence that Obi and Baba-Ahmed would retrieve their alleged mandate, Rhodes-Vivour said that young people came out, stood their ground and showed that they were the ones with the power to put people in and out of power during the 25th February elections, saying “That was a powerful thing to see in Nigeria because we have not seen it in so long.”