LP’s Rhodes-Vivour Visits Oba Of Lagos Days To Election
Ahead of the March 18 governorship elections, the Labour Party (LP) candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour on Thursday, visited the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu.
The LP candidate was at the palace of the revered monarch alongside his father, Olawale and his team.
“I was accompanied by my father and team to visit and pay our respects to the Oba of Lagos, we indigenous Lagosians will always respect and revere our traditional rulers, and I look forward to working with them to build a better Lagos,” Rhodes-Vivour tweeted.
Aside from the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is seeking reelection under the banner of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rhodes-Vivour has his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Olajide Adediran aka Jandor to contend with in the exercise.
In the presidential election, LP’s Obi polled 582,454 votes in Lagos to trounce the flag bearer of the APC, Bola Tinubu who scored 572,606 votes.
In total, Obi won 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory but Tinubu scored the highest votes in total and was later on Wednesday announced the winner of the poll and Nigeria’s President-elect.
