Mother of LP Candidate for Lagos Guber Didn’t Apologize for Igbos Action – PRNigeria Fact-Check
By Idris Umar Feta,
Though the 2023 general elections in Lagos State have been won and lost, there was no time the mother of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party’s candidate for the State Governorship poll, begged Yoruba’s in Lagos to forgive her kinsmen over a bigotry statement they made, after the presidential election.
This is according to a fact-check done by PRNigeria, recently.
A YouTube video of an unidentified woman uploaded by Oodua TV had emerged online claiming that Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour’s mother, has apologized to Yoruba’s over a bigotry statement her Igbo fellows made after the February 25 election.
The claim was massively forwarded to Whatsapp groups and individuals. https://prnigeria.com/2023/03/25/gbadebo-mother-beg-yoruba/
But an online investigation conducted by PRNigeria revealed that the woman in the YouTube video seen, kneeling and apologising to Yorubas at an event is not the mother of Rhodes-Vivour.
PRNigeria observed that the woman in question was just apologizing to the entire Yoruba population over a statement by some Igbos that “Lagos is no man’s land.”
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A comparison of the picture of Gbadebo’s mother obtained by PRNigeria with that of the woman in question did not show any resemblance.
Meanwhile, PRNigeria discovered a recent video of Gbadebo’s mother accusing the APC of vote-buying in Lagos State.
“My name is Mrs. Rhodes-Vivour. I am the mother of the incoming governor…my experience is nothing to write about it. People are buying votes openly. How can you vote and show people who you voted for and the APC person is capturing you to go and give you money?”
Thus, based on the facts gathered by PRNigeria, the woman seen in the YouTube video apologizing to Yorubas at an event is an unidentified Igbo woman and not Gbadebo’s mother as claimed.
PRNigeria therefore concluded that the claim that Gbadebo’s mother apologized to Yoruba’s over alleged bigotry statements during the electioneering period is FALSE and MISLEADING.
[17:35, 27/03/2023] Adnan Mukhtar: BREAKING: Court restrains Ayu from acting as PDP national chairman
A high court in Benue state has granted an interim order restraining Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
W.I Kpochi, the presiding judge, gave the order on Monday, while ruling on a motion ex parte marked MHC/633/2023, and filed by Conrad Terhide Utaan.
