The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has denounced the violence unleashed by supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during the March 18 election.
Tinubu had on Tuesday called for the healing process of the aftermath of the election stating that the process should commence forthwith.
Meanwhile, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour argued that there cannot be healing without justice.
Rhodes-Vivour noted that the actions of leaders of the ruling party could lead to genocide like what happened in Rwanda in 1994.
The Labour Party governorship candidate said all this during a world press conference on Wednesday, and vow to fight the outcome of the polls he termed ‘’injustice’’ with all legal means.
In a statement on Wednesday, Rhodes-Vivour said he visited the victims of Saturday’s “state-backed terrorism and violence from Abule Ado to Surulere, Apapa to Ikeja.”
He revealed he met with young men and women in pain due to bullets lodged in their body or deep cuts which have fractured their legs.
Rhodes-Vivour accused the APC of stoking ethnic strife “for the ambition of one man and his cult,” and rubbished the credibility the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, built over the years.
“We saw our traditional institutions reduced to pawns, tools. Oro rites that are done at night were done during the day, invoking the spell that Senator Tinubu and his cult have used to keep Lagos bound.
“This was no election; it was violence on multiple levels, diabolically and physically. On this ambition, they sowed seeds that could potentially lead to outcome like the Rwandan genocide,” the statement added.
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