Rhodes-Gbadebo said this on Saturday in a video recorded in the Situation Room of the Labour Party in Lagos State
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Rhodes-Vivour polled 18 votes while Sanwo-Olu won with 29 votes.
The APC candidate polled 43 votes, his closest contender, the Labour Party candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, had five votes, while the National Rescue Movement had one vote.
Justice P. O. Lifu had given the order mandating the electoral agency to electronically or digitally transmit results.
Alongside some civil society organisations in Lagos State, the mega endorsement took place during a restricted media briefing in Lagos State by the President and National Coordinator, South East Revival Group (SERG), Chief Willy Ezugwu.
Addressing a news conference at the party secretary at Ikeja GRA, the support groups vowed to win the state for the LP.
Rhodes-Vivour, at a joint interactive session with various ethnic groups, said that he was determined to deliver a state that would work for all residents irrespective of ethic nationality.
The Lagos State Chairman of the party, Dele Oladeji, said Tuesday that Accord and its candidates decided to support Sanwo-Olu and other APC candidates in the Saturday’s elections in the interest of the state.
Olagbade Benson, the Lead Counsel to Rhodes-Vivour, told newsmen on Monday in Lagos that three court cases instituted against its client’s candidacy recently had been struck out.
This summarises the incongruence in the philosophy underpinning his political sojourn.
Rhodes-Vivour released the vision in a document titled: “My First 100 Days As Governor of Lagos,” over the weekend.
The attack was also confirmed by the candidate of the Boot Party for the poll, Olawale Oluwo.
APC’s Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo in a statement on Thursday, said that the group’s endorsement of Rhodes-Vivour was allegedly borne out of envy and bitterness.
The groups officially declared support for the Labour Party governorship candidate at a news conference in Ikeja.
It rather insisted that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, was the clear winner of the presidential election.
The reason for this controversy in the first place is the exceptional performance of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi in Lagos in the last election. Obi’s vision of a country built on merit, frugality, and long-term planning resonated with young people and his party surprisingly carried Lagos, a state previously in the APC’s pouch which has governed it in its earlier forms as AD and ACN since 1999.
The Lagos PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Hakeem Amode, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday.
Dr. Ify Aniebo tweeted in December 2011 condemning the Presidency, legislators and those against gay rights.
The former Military Governor of Ondo State said this in an interview he granted Sunday PUNCH on the election.
Rhodes-Vivour, who spoke in a statement, has a Yoruba father, Olawale Rhodes Vivour, and Igbo mother, Nkechi.