March 11 is day to pay APC back with protest votes _Rhodes-Vivour
- Insists LP’s votes in Lagos were massives cut
Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour , has called on full population of the state to come out on March 11 to pay back the APC with protest votes for rigging the last Saturday’s presidential election.
Rhodes-Vivour urged Lagosians, especially the youth, not to be deterred by the rigged presidential and National Assembly election but to troop out and vote out the APC in the governorship and state Assembly ballot.
In describing the LP as the hope of the people, he noted that the will of the people to oust the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) was so strong that massive result rigging could only reduce the margin of winning.
He said LP scored nearly a million votes in the Saturday election, and accused the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) making strong attempt to steal the peoples’ votes.
“From our situation room, we see that we won over 900,000 votes and this was all because you [the youth] came out. This was won without any voter inducement. We cannot stop thanking the good people of Lagos. We made history in that election; we took Lagos State and restored it back to the people,” he noted.
Rhodes-Vivour stressed that he would continue to thank the people of Lagos.
He also condemned abandonment of the electronic platform for real-time transmission of results from polling units despite repeated promises and assurances from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He declared that the party sold to voters in Lagos State on the content of its massages and the credibility of its drivers, but not on ethnic sentiments.
He noted that Lagosians who massively voted for the party are cut across tribal and religious lines because, according to him, the people desire positive change from the current misadventure of the All Progressive Congress (APC) led federal government.
Mr Rhodes-Vivour which one of the youngest gubernatorial contestants in the March 11 polls for state offices is flying the flag of the Labour Party which is preferred by the Nigerian youth population who demand step change in the political administration of the country.
In speaking about the historic win of the entrenched APC in Lagos State, Mr Rhodes-Vivour noted the momentum could not have been mustered with tribal sentiments but with strong belief in the candidates and what they are capable of delivering.
“This was not a tribal victory. We won in places where the opposition has never won in two decades; we won in Alimosho, we won in Ikeja and several other places,” he said.
“We unequivocally reject the process by which the results were announced because it was not electronically as promised by INEC.”
