How I Parted Methods With GBADEBO RHODES-VIVOUR

•Former LAGOS Labour Social gathering Chairman, KAYODE SALAKO

All just isn’t effectively between, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Social gathering candidate in Lagos and Kayode Salako, the ex-Chairman of the Labour Social gathering in Lagos.

Since final yr each of them have been at daggers drawn, with Gbadebo operating a solo guber marketing campaign and Kayode voting for Gov. Sanwo-Olu on the final governorship elections.

A number of days again Kayode advised Metropolis Those that Gbadebo has been unkind to him. He revealed that as Chairman of the occasion for five months, he made him emerge because the governorship candidate regardless of numerous strain placed on him to offer it to a a lot older individual. “I gave it to him as a result of I most popular a youthful individual. I stood my grounds, however

instantly I gave him the ticket, freed from cost, with out negotiating, or charging him to offer me something, he began misbehaving, and making some hidden and uncultured strikes to push me except for his challenge”.

“I had thought I might give him the ticket, and the challenge can be our challenge. I had thought we’d run issues collectively to attain the success collectively”.

“My avowed mission then was to win Lagos for Labour Social gathering, in order that I could make a reputation for myself because the State Chairman. I didn’t know a lot about him. I didn’t even hassle to know. Badly sufficient, I didn’t even know he couldn’t write/converse the language of the state he desires to manipulate”.

“He hid his nature from me. I didn’t even know he has a preferred Ibo title. I solely knew that his spouse and mom are Ibos, which to me, would even make our occasion to get good votes from the Ibo inhabitants within the election. However, instantly he acquired the ticket, he began operating issues on their own along with his Endsars folks. He sidelined virtually all of the Yorubas and outstanding leaders and elders on the platform, and all of the sudden turned purely Ibo inclined”.

 “Nothing Yoruba was ever enticing to him once more.  He stopped listening to me, or anyone within the occasion – Not even the elders and leaders I reported him to, on few events. He finally did away with me. And, after I reported him to the Elders and Leaders in our occasion the primary time, hear what he rudely stated to me, his State Chairman as on the time: ‘I’m so mad at you proper now Mr. Salako. Am I  owing you something? Do you suppose I don’t have a thoughts of my very own, after I determined I need to come out to be governor. You may’t be sounding like a godfather in my life on this challenge. I don’t want a godfather, or anyone to maintain telling me what to do. I’ve a thoughts of my very own. Please, inform me. If I’m proudly owning you something, I’ll pay you. Am I proudly owning you something, or what? I’m so mad at you proper now”.

“This response was made brazenly within the presence of all of the leaders and elders that have been current on the assembly on that fateful day. The Chairman of the Leaders/Elders Discussion board of our occasion then, who presided over the assembly that day, Chief Sumbo Onitiri, additionally finally noticed what I noticed about him in the midst of the challenge, and backed out on the dying minute with disappointment”.

He’s now by chance a Cheiftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the state.  Salavador, who’s the apex chief of the occasion within the state, additionally backed out together with many different outstanding stakeholders, together with lots of the LGA/LCDA Chairmen of the occasion. I additionally stayed alone all through the interval, and voted for Babajide Sanwo-Olu to proceed to run Lagos State as progressively peaceable as he has been operating it over the past 3 years”.

“All through my keep in workplace because the State Chairman of the occasion, vindictively he by no means acquired my workplace concerned in something; gave me something, or did something with me.  I acquired no ‘shishi’ or any encouragement to run my workplace, or something as on the interval. I used to be fully sidelined”.

“All he was doing was working with my detractors for me to be eliminated because the State Chairman of the occasion, and he and his deputy, Princess Abiodun Oyefusi, finally acquired me eliminated about 1 month and few days to the February 25 presidential/nationwide meeting election with the assistance of Dayo Ekong, the present Caretaker Chairman of the occasion within the state (whom I nominated on my own to take over from me, due to my honest love for her and the worth I constructed for what we shared, after I was in workplace) and Sam Okpala, the insatiable and domineering State Secretary of the occasion”.

What was my offence?! As a result of, I reported him to the leaders within the occasion to inform him to do the suitable factor with the occasion, which he by no means did”.

“He advised all of us to our faces that he didn’t belief us. He stated we must always steer clear of his challenge. He stated he had his personal folks he wished to make use of to run his election, and all of us merely obeyed. He didn’t need to be a godson to Salako, his State Chairman, however all alongside, Chief Bode George, the chief of the PDP within the state and his spouse, have been these he was listening to, and never anyone else within the Labour Social gathering within the state”.

“So, he most popular to be a godson to a PDP chief anti-partily as a Labour Social gathering member and governorship candidate, however advised the State Chairman, who fought so exhausting for him to get the ticket to go to blazes. He was by no means Labour Social gathering inclined in any respect from his operations, however purely PDP. He was simply doing no matter he preferred within the occasion, and never listening to anyone”.

“He ran his election alone, with out the involvement of lots of the outstanding political stakeholders in our occasion, and God almighty merely corrected the error I made by working so exhausting, and by preventing virtually all of the powers that be in our occasion – each in Lagos and Abuja – for him to get the ticket to be the governorship candidate of our occasion. He merely misplaced the election to Babajide Sanwo-Olu.  That margin of win by Sanwo-Olu, wouldn’t have been that geometrically exponential, if all of us had been concerned.

“Violence, or no violence on March 17, there was no approach he would have gained the ruling occasion within the state, as a result of virtually about 70% of all of the outstanding subject work instruments within the occasion, have been out of his challenge, together with me, the person who led the workforce that constructed the political buildings of the occasion within the state”.

“When Labour Social gathering gained the presidential election in Lagos State on February 25, all of us within the occasion have been committedly and passionately concerned. However, on March 17, it was extra of solely him; his Endsars folks and the emergency pals he imported from overseas on the story finish of the challenge”.

“God just isn’t silly! He doesn’t reward betrayals; ordinary ungratefulness; operational conceitedness and dangerous management. With what I find out about him, Gbadebo would have merely come to mess up Lagos, and set its progress 10 years behind.

He’s so conceited, proud, very misleading, self-centered, infantile; mean-hearted, unforgiving, operationally vindictive and immature in virtually all the things. I made a mistake by working for his kind to be the governorship candidate of our occasion, however God in His infinite mercies, corrected the error on March 17. I might keep in mind that one of many aspirants provided to offer me 30 million naira and a model new Jeep automobile for him to get the ticket.  I refused and insisted on him, as a result of I believed the one approach my occasion might win Lagos was to make use of a youth/or a center aged individual, who may very well be so enticing sufficient to the citizens within the state”.

“What an insult from a boy I suffered, and paid so dearly to ascertain and maintain because the governorship candidate of the Labour Social gathering within the state”.

“Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour would have finally grow to be the subsequent Governor of Lagos State, that was our plan and aundaunted resolve from the start, however his horrible operational angle, pleasure, conceitedness; spirit of self-centredness and horrible social character disposition gave his victory out”.

“You need to contest an election to win in a democracy, however all alongside, you have been preventing all of the outstanding stakeholders and actors within the occasion. That’s the reason many people backed out on the final second. You’d name him on telephone he gained’t choose your name, besides solely when he wants your assist. He was at all times too proud to go beg the folks, who really feel aggrieved about his ugly methods and magnificence of operations within the occasion. I made efforts for us to go and beg Alhaji Moshood Salvador and co. to work for his challenge, however he refused. Democracy is a sport of numbers and collective contributions of increasingly more folks”.

When Labour Social gathering gained Lagos, through the presidential election, everyone within the occasion was committedly and passionately concerned. However, Gbadebo misplaced, as a result of he advised many people to get away from his challenge and known as our bluff”.

“Something Yoruba irritates him within the occasion. He’s solely drawn to Something Ibo,  the Endsars folks and his emergency allies that he imported from overseas.  These are the ‘tremendous’ folks,  he believed would give him all of the votes to win Lagos. He was solely banking on the votes of his politically inexperienced Obidient motion folks; the Ibos and the Endsars folks within the occasion, therefore he did away with the contributions of lots of the outstanding Yorubas on the platform”.

“That Chief Sumbo Onitiri, who was the extremely revered and calm chairman of the Elders Discussion board left; Salvador and lots of outstanding Yoruba large wigs left, was a vindication of all I’ve been saying about Gbadebo’s nature and character from the start”.

“He refused to work with the suitable construction of the occasion – He refused to do the suitable factor with the occasion, and wasn’t humble sufficient to hold everyone together with anticipated humility and dignity, therefore, he misplaced it on their own along with his dangerous, poor and uncultured character.

He didn’t belief anyone that had something to do with Salako within the occasion. He intentionally sidelined them; starved them of crucial helps and handled them like a pariah. He didn’t do effectively with lots of the candidates, who contested elections on the platform”.

Gbadebo operated like a lone ranger all alongside. He didn’t relate effectively with them, and didn’t carry them alongside, not to mention give them good ethical/monetary helps, when crucial. He was working alone with Sherif Adegbite, his P.A, and solely Particular Adviser gave him the ticket to contest to grow to be governor, however he and his deputy, Princess Oyefusi, ended up eradicating me because the State Chairman. That is someone, who hasn’t grow to be the Governor”.

How would he be behaving, working and treating folks, if he finally turns into the Governor?! Gbadebo had no relationship with outstanding leaders and elders of the occasion. He didn’t function with us and didn’t carry any of us alongside in all he was doing. So, no sane human being ought to anticipate that I might nonetheless proceed to stake all of it for such type of a personality in a human being to achieve his personal challenge. I merely labored and voted, the place my efforts and vote have been wanted, valued and appreciated”.

“Gbadebo who can not rule our occasion; handle folks and run issues pretty effectively with folks within the occasion, now desires to rule Lagos. With what character?!

“God just isn’t silly. He doesn’t reward betrayals, ungratefulness and dangerous management operational character with ‘holy’ greatness. That is the political base of the Jagaban of politics in Nigeria, he stated it in a video in circulation on social media few weeks in the past. He stated, and I quote:

“Political energy just isn’t served a la carte. It’s for the grabs. You seize it; snatch it and run away with it …”

Is that the kind of a person, you’d need to face in an election, and also you anticipate it could be as straightforward as preventing and calling the bluff of all of the outstanding and skilled polical actors in your individual occasion.”

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