Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s candidate in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos, has said that a genuine healing process should begin with justice for the victims of the country’s electoral violence.
According to The Cable, the Labour Party candidate said this during a press conference on March 22.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, defeated Rhodes-Vivour in the Lagos governorship election on Saturday.
Before and during the election, there were reports of voter suppression and electoral violence in some parts of the state, while ethnic slurs and profiling took over social media.
The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, had on Tuesday, March 21, condemned the electoral violence that happened during the poll, saying they were “unacceptable and antithetical to democratic ethos.”
Tinubu promised that his administration would commence the healing process by working with his opponents and their supporters to unite the country.
Reacting to the condemnation by Tinubu, Rhodes-Vivour said the violence during and after the poll should not be forgotten and must be addressed before the President-elect begin his healing process.
His statement reads in part:
“Yesterday, Bola Tinubu called for healing, but healing cannot happen without justice. There was an attempt to make this seems like the violence was a Yoruba versus Igbo. But it was widespread across the state. Everybody was affected and disenfranchised.”