A former chairman of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Kayode Salako, said critical stakeholders in his party worked against Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the governorship candidate of the LP in the March 18 election, because he suddenly became arrogant shortly after the party won the February 25 presidential polls.
Salako who said this in an interview with News Central TV said Rhodes-Vivour started seeing himself as the next Governor of Lagos because of the February 25 feat and enraged party faithful the more when he started endorsing candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He claimed that despite their efforts to warn the LP candidate about his behaviour, he showed a significant degree of defiance toward them, adding that this was the reason most of the members of the party eventually worked against him at the poll.
He said, “When Labour Party won Lagos State during the presidential election and National Assembly period, all of us were involved. It was a game of all of us. Our passion was there. Everybody was involved. But immediately after the victory of the party at the presidential election, then that tug of pride came to Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, he started seeing himself as the governor of Lagos State already.
“You know he is a youth; he is young. And then tug of youthful exuberance. People already calling him His Excellency; he thought because the party has won the presidency. Then automatically, the same thing would be repeated for the governorship. He would not have made some of us angry if he didn’t come out openly to start endorsing the candidates of PDP which is an opposition party to our party.
“He started endorsing the candidate of the party he came from which he claimed he had left. He started publicly to come out to say he is now with PDP. He said, it is my PDP people that I am banking on to vote for me,” the former chairman said.
