More election drama as petition calls for disqualification of Rhodes-Vivour over IPOB link

The Omoluabi Coalition Group has called for the disqualification of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party's gubernatorial candidate over his links to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The petition which was addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Lagos command Zone 2, Onikan Lagos, the director general of the coalition, Tunji Balogun, called for the immediate investigation of Rhodes-Vivour.

As contained in the petition, Balogun called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to also immediately disqualify the Labour Party bannerman for his alleged confessional committal statement in a live broadcast television interview circulating on social media to having direct operational links with IPOB.

The petition reads: “It was crystal clear to see Mr Chinedu Rhodes Vivour in a live video admitting his participation in the most heinous and notorious dastard crime, a similar nafarious criminality perpetrated by the House of Representatives Leader, Hon. Doguwa in Kano State who had earlier threatened to kill if not elected.

“And regrettably he eventually manifested, burnt alive and killed innocent Nigerians during that last 25th of February Presidential and National Assembly Elections, a similar scenerios is already breading in Lagos State as a result of the Akere Market burning in Olodi Apapa, which he Patrick Rhodes Vivour quickly donated huge amount of money early hours of the conscripted crime, a mission we see to be symptoms of IPOB-ESN trademarks of sorrows, tears and blood."