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Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi joined the PDP when he returned to Nigeria in 2007 and contested the party's Lagos State governorship primaries in 2011 and 2015, but he did not win. He defected to the Action Democratic Party and was that party's governorship candidate in the 2019 election.

A lot of people on social media were impressed by Mr Gbadamosi's performance in the governorship debate. He criticised the ruling APC and said that he was able to provide 24 hours electricity at the estate that he owns (Amen Estate, Lekki) and therefore he would provide 24 hours electricity in Lagos. He lost the governorship election but gained a huge followership on social media.

However, many of his new followers were shocked by his vicious attacks on anybody that disagreed with him. He had a habit of totally insulting anyone that dared to disagree with him.


Mr Gbadamosi was involved in a scandal when videos of him partying at Funke Akindele's house during the Covid-19 lock down went viral. He later apologised and said that he thought that only Funke Akindele's family would be at the event.


Mr Gbadamosi defected to the PDP and contested the 2020 Lagos East senatorial bye-election. The election was held due to the death of Senator Bayo Oshinowo (aka Peperito). Mr Gbadamosi lost woefully to Tokunbo Abiru, the APC candidate.

Mr Gbadamosi also went viral in 2021 when it was alleged that his wife kicked him out of their home and took over Amen Estate because he allegedly impregnated a woman in the United Kingdom. It was previously believed that Mr Gbadamosi was the owner of the estate, but it appears that it was actually owned by his wife. His relative, Funke Akindele, criticised him after the separation became public (Mr Gbadamosi in turn taunted Funke Akindele after her marriage crashed).

In 2022 Mr Gbadamosi spoke in support of the Labour Party. In July 2022 he asked his Twitter followers to buy the Labour Party governorship nomination form for him. He eventually told them not to buy the form because he was backing Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who was the Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos. In October 2022 he asked Obidients to defend themselves during the election campaign.

Babatunde Gbadamosi is the deputy governorship candidate of the ADC in the 2027 Lagos governorship elections. He is the running mate of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.

Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams

Dear Lagosians,

If the last 27 years have taught you ANYTHING, anything at all, it should be this:

"Ojú bọ̀ọ̀rọ̀ ò gb'ọmọ l'ọ́wọ́ èkùrọ́".

The next elections really are about your future and that of your children.

I assure you, that in the competent, compassionate and capable hands of @GRVlagos and myself, Lagos State can be so much more than it is right now, and Lagosians should not be begging for their pension or anything else for that matter.

Lagos TRULY has no business with poverty, homelessness or hunger, and yet, here we are today.

We all want to take Lagos State to the next level, to even greater than the late great Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande took it.

To do that, we must resist the devils, and they shall surely flee before us, and together, we can Make Èkó Great Again. #MEGA2027

No more Mister Nice Guy.

Warmest Regards,

Babatunde O. Gbadamosi

https://x.com/BOGbadams/status/2092308022844334517

Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams

Many Lagosians are wondering why I would accept the nomination to be a Deputy Governorship candidate to a younger Gubernatorial candidate in Gbadebo P Rhodes-Vivour. Many think I am more experienced, mature, etc, and should therefore be the candidate and Gbadebo the deputy.

I have decided to explain this only once.

For decades, those in the corridors of power have repeated the sentence "the youths are the leaders of tomorrow", but have refused, consistently, to leave the scene.

That sentence "the youths are the leaders of tomorrow", has in fact, been a big fat lie the whole time. Let me explain.

In the 1950s, the colonialists carried out an experiment, allowing regional self-rule in Nigeria. Western Nigeria was led by the Action Group, a party led by Obafemi Awolowo, who was in his early 40s.

Many of his colleagues were in their 30s, and some were even in their 20s, like Anthony Enahoro, who demanded independence for Nigeria on the floor of parliament at the grand old age of 23!

That government of mostly young men was easily the most impactful government in Africa, if not the world, at that time.

Moving into the 60s, and many of these men had moved into their 50s, and become so used to the trappings of power, that they forgot that they were in power to serve the people, and not themselves.

A crisis erupted, which eventually resulted in a military coup, led by YOUNG soldiers in their 20s.

A counter coup was to follow 6 months later, led again by young soldiers in their 20s and 30s.

The two governments that arose out of the second coup (another coup happened in 1976), were again, the most impactful governments in Africa, with their influence stretching as far as Britain and South Africa.

General Olusegun Obasanjo (as he then was) was to hand over to much older civilians in 1979, and they promptly began to destroy the vibrant nation he and his colleagues had built, through their selfish, gratuitous politicking.

Again, another coup, and yet another, and Babangida took over, in his 40s, completing projects abandoned by the older civilians, like the 3rd Mainland Bridge and the Shiroro dam.

Coming to Lagos State, Mobolaji Johnson was appointed founding governor at the grand old age of 31, and decided to appoint men like Chiefs Adeniran Ogunsanya, S L Edu and Ganiyu Olawale Dawodu, all in their 50s, into his cabinet.

Again, that government, led by a much YOUNGER man, was probably the most impactful Lagos State has seen since, besides the government of the late Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande.

I am proud to say that I was somewhat instrumental in ensuring that Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour got the Labour Party ticket in 2022, partly because he is a younger man, and also because of the unique skill set he brought to the table, which I still consider to be the best fit for Lagos State right now, following the 27 years of blight, wrought by the greedy, incompetent and wicked Tinubu criminal gang.

I refuse to join those who repeatedly lied to my generation that "the youths are the leaders of tomorrow", when in fact, they led us in their youth!

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is in his early forties - a perfect time when the energy of youth meets the wisdom of experience. The time for the youths to lead is NOW, not tomorrow, and we need to revert back to what we did before, to get the results we desire for our children and our children's children.

If you want to Make Èkó Great Again, and build a better Lagos than the one we have all endured for the last 27 years, please join Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and I, and help us to chase away the locusts that want to feed on your children's future, while telling you to your face that THEIR youths will be your leaders tomorrow.

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Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours (1971)


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