Salako who said this in an interview with News Central TV mentioned that Rhodes-Vivour began to believe he would be the next governor of Lagos State and this made him (Rhodes-Vivour) publicly endorse candidates from the opposition party, PDP, an act done without the approval of the party’s leadership.
Kayode Salako, the former chairman of the Labour Party in Lagos State, has said the state party’s governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour became arrogant and too full of himself after the party won the state during the February 25 presidential election.
Salako who said this in an interview with News Central TV mentioned that Rhodes-Vivour began to believe he would be the next governor of Lagos State and this made him (Rhodes-Vivour) publicly endorse candidates from the opposition party, PDP, an act done without the approval of the party’s leadership.
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.