The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has raised alarm over alleged death threats and assassination attempts on his life.
Rhodes-Vivour, who raised the alarm on Arise TV on Sunday, March 12, 2023, said he received a series of death threats, as well as intelligence reports about plans to eliminate him.
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“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 Honourable Najid of the PDP working with us and they were also shot at in Epe yesterday”, he said
Former Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, in a recent press conference in Lagos, had warned of a plot to eliminate Rhodes-Vivour.
Chief George, who spoke on behalf of Omo Eko Pataki, an umbrella body of prominent Lagos indigenes, had warned that if anything untoward happened to the LP gubernatorial candidate, Nigerians should know who to blame.
He said: “We wish to inform Nigerians about the heinous plan to secretly eliminate the Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour, the latest move by the Lagos occupiers, to take him out of circulation before the election on Saturday.
“We, hereby, warn that should anything happen to this vibrant bonafide Lagosian, whose fate has been thrown up to free our dear state from the stranglehold of marauders, Nigerians should know who to hold.
“As we speak, there are grand designs, to provoke the peace-loving Nigerians, whose resolve is to effect change through the ballot box on Saturday, as threats are being issued against voters suspected to be willing to vote against incumbency.
“For the avoidance of doubt, a particular video has gone virile, on social media, which showed a weird character, suspected to be one of the agents of the state, threatening ‘brimstone and fire’ against anybody, particularly of South East extraction (Igbo), to dare come out on election day to vote for the Labour Party.
“To this disposition, we, the Omo Eko Pataki, say it is the most heinous crime against humanity in this 21st century, and condemn such in all its entirety. We ask who gave these characters the institutional authority and powers, to query the right of Nigerians to exercise their civic responsibility?” he queried.
“We reject this divisive politics of annihilation of innocent Nigerians, which seek to create anarchy and provoke anger of the citizenry.
“This is the time for us to have a change of vision through an electoral overhaul. We equally urge the electorate in Lagos to go out in their numbers on Saturday, to vote against the plundering that has bedeviled our prosperous state for over two decades as adequate security is assured to everyone out to exercise their civic responsibility.”