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Nnamdipapa:
That is why most Igbos won't vote for him. I am like Gbadebo for example, I speak fluent Yoruba from primary one to my university, read lots of yoruba novels, speak awori fluently, I can contest an election in my hometown but will never win because most regard me as a Yoruba even though I speak fluent Igbo.
I live abroad and I am allowed to context any elections here though I may not get required votes due to my skin colour.

Not voting for Ghadebo is OK, telling him he cannot context or constantly referring to him as "shinedu" is all shades of wrong. I understand if the uneducated do so but we are the future of our country and should build something better for the future.

The rich and the politicians are friends to each other, only the suffering masses cling to tribalism. If you hate someone from the East or west, it is within your rights to discriminate but blatant tribalism has no profits and not good for anyone.

It's time to sanitize the Yoruba political space, reason most of us are embracing "conservative" politics.. South West has been the "theatre of operation" for divisive elements and Yorubas who aren't truly Yorubas..
This 2025, progress must come to Yorubaland and only Yorubas who embrace their Yoruba identity will get our support. I'm not happy seeing thugs and destitutes everywhere in a region that is filled with brilliant minds.

UltraSolid:
I spell his name wring deliberately as a slur because I thoroughly dislike the guy and all bigoted Igbos like him. Go and study history more. Come back and tell me Jews will spell Hitler correctly If he wants to leads Israelis, that he hates and wanted to exterminate, in Israel.

How you Igbos can never see the wrongdoing of your brothers, and how such can offend others to the core of their soul, is a lesson in callousness a degree course needs to be convened for.

If it were Yorubas dealing with a Yoruba-Igbo wanting to lead Anambra, only to be full of public disdain for Igbos, most Yorubas will simply conclude he deserves whatever Igbos show him for his bigotry against Igbos and his inability to respect the majority of those he wishes to lead.

Never so for you Igbos as you seem to lack human decency and the empathy that will allow you putt yourself in the shoes of others. Instead you will double down on your support for Shinedu knowing what he does is offensive to the human soul same as a white supremacist wanting to lead a folks with an 80% black majority is abhorrent and unthinkable.

I condemn Igbos more than anyone here. Go back and check my threads.

His posts against Yorubas on social media, even though I will not approve, had a context. Ir was within the context of the particular discussion or thread he was responding to at the particular time. It does not mean Gbadebo loves all the Igbos and hates all the Yorubas.

You will be further from the truth if that is the message you get. I some people even from my own tribe and others.

It was subsequently weaponized by APC to get votes and keep him out of the office, I see that as dirty politicking but people do it all the time.

I am not a white person, I live among them and if my name is mispronounced by mistake, they apologize.

I have nothing in common with these people. They have built a society where you are not blatantly discriminated against because of your origin, why can't we do something similar.
We cannot profess to love Nigeria and be unabashedly tribalist.

flokii:
It's time to sanitize the Yoruba political space, reason most of us are embracing "conservative" politics.. South West has been the "theatre of operation" for divisive elements and Yorubas who aren't truly Yorubas..
This 2025, progress must come to Yorubaland and only Yorubas who embrace their Yoruba identity will get our support. I'm not happy seeing thugs and destitutes everywhere in a region that is filled with brilliant minds.

You see my argument. I totally agree with you not to support any candidate of your choice, it is within your rights in democracy.
But latant tribalism is telling him " you cannot contest here, go to Anambra to contest" or constantly slurring his name as " shinedu".

I hate trinbalists with a passion be they from the East, west or north. It tells me the their states of minds and thinking acuity. If you were born in the North, you will be an hausa man today. Shikena.

If we plan to divide the country, then tribalism is the way to go but, I am repeating for the sake of emphasis, we cannot love Nigeria, want one Nigeria and, be tribalist at the same time. It is simply disingenuous and defeats common sense.

We are educated, better than our fathers and can do better. I have decided to stop complaining and try my best for Nigeria.

Nnamdipapa:
That is why most Igbos won't vote for him. I am like Gbadebo for example, I speak fluent Yoruba from primary one to my university, read lots of yoruba novels, speak awori fluently, I can contest an election in my hometown but will never win because most regard me as a Yoruba even though I speak fluent Igbo.
I live abroad and I am allowed to context any elections here though I may not get required votes due to my skin colour.

Not voting for Ghadebo is OK, telling him he cannot context or constantly referring to him as "shinedu" is all shades of wrong. I understand if the uneducated do so but we are the future of our country and should build something better for the future.

The rich and the politicians are friends to each other, only the suffering masses cling to tribalism. If you hate someone from the East or west, it is within your rights to discriminate but blatant tribalism has no profits and not good for anyone.

Bro, stop forcing this issue na. You seem like a decent chap. Polite and everything even in the face of abrasive provocation I can always admit I am impatiently guilty of.

Yet, how can you claim you are same as Shinedu, with the bolded in your post, when the chap speaks Igbo fluently yet cannot speak a word of Yoruba wheen you can speak the language fluently? What then makes you like Shinedu who can't speak Yoruba, does not "think Yoruba" and mocks Yorubas as "Afronja"?

Now you can see why I feel the way I do about Igbos when a seemingly decent Igbo, like you, cannot simply abandon Shinedu to his plight based on his offensive and disrespectful behaviour to other as Yorubas are always able to do against even their own when they err offensively.

UltraSolid:
Bro, stop forcing this issue na. You seem like a decent chap. Polite and everything even in the face of abrasive provocation I can always admit I am impatiently guilty of.

Yet, how can you claim you are same as Shinedu, with the bolded in your post, when the chap speaks Igbo fluently yet cannot speak a word of Yoruba wheen you can speak the language fluently? What then makes you like Shinedu who can't speak Yoruba, does not "think Yoruba" and mocks Yorubas as "Afronja"?

Now you can see why I feel the way I do about Igbos when a seemingly decent Igbo, like you, cannot simply abandon Shinedu to his plight based on his offensive and disrespectful behaviour to other as Yorubas are always able to do against even their own when they err offensively.

That was a failure on the part of his father and guy stands very lillte chance believe me. In the formative years, male children are always influenced by the mothers.
If the mother were a yoruba and the father Igbo, the guy would learn more Yorubas than Igbos. We fathers are always busy to provide for the family, kids mostly left to the women for nurture, Ggadebo/Chinedu must have been influenced by his mom like most of us.

I think his dad should have stepped in to taech him to speak Yoruba fluently and there is no excuse for that. Reason he may never win elections in Lagos or any SW states.
I learnt Igbo language from my mother at home mostly and can speak it fluently

This is a big lesson to the men married to a lady outside their tribes, you have to step in to teach your child your cultures otherwise, they will learn other cultures from their mother.

Ur bodi too hot!
Understand sarcasm bro.

Hushpuppy20:
So, what of ROTIMI amechi ? Since you all that Gbadebo is a Yoruba name. Mumu

E be like say u never get d memo.
Even if na my papa, once una begin support am, e don become ibo henceforth!

DMerciful:
Is that what Jimmy Agbaje did when you guys tagged him Igbo too?

You see why una MUST always get problem wherever una go?
Out of the over 200 tribe domiciled in lagos na only una get the diarrhea of the mouth to vomit such!

DMerciful:
Why only Lagos?

Nobody is interested in other Yoruba states. Lagos belongs to all Nigerians equally

That means its not about GRV!

richie240:
E be like say u never get d memo.
Even if na my papa, once una begin support am, e don become ibo henceforth!

Lagos belongs to all Nigerians equally because Nigeria resources was used to developed Lagos and still being used. Same with Abuja.

If Nigeria breaks up and the West wanna keep Lagos, they must pay the rest of Nigeria the trillions spent to develop Lagos or they go without Lagos

Deal with it.

richie240:
You see why una MUST always get problem wherever una go?
Out of the over 200 tribe domiciled in lagos na only una get the diarrhea of the mouth to vomit such!

Now u are talking

DMerciful:
That means its not about GRV!

Well, now that our inlaw and Ojukwu look-alike Seyi is probably the next gov and our daughter first lady, what will you do?

richie240:
Now u are talking

When we get to that river we'll know how to cross it!

DMerciful:
Well, now that our inlaw and Ojukwu look-alike Seyi is probably the next gov and our daughter first lady, what will you do?

I like this quagmire

richie240:
When we get to that river we'll know how to cross it!

DMerciful:
Well, now that our inlaw and Ojukwu look-alike Seyi is probably the next gov and our daughter first lady, what will you do?

Lol Igbos sha. The only people to famz others based on "look-alike" credentials. You lot are jokers walahi.

You're cherrypicking. Our daughter is not based on look-alike, only Seyi

UltraSolid:
Lol Igbos sha. The only people to famz others based on "look-alike" credentials. You lot are jokers walahi.

At this stage, it is not out of place to say you are just deliberately stupid. Which certificates again, evidences of his name were shown clearly in every certificate displayed in the video. I dont know who is more stupid between you and the 130 other imbeciles that liked your dumb post. Now the logical question is: for what exactly are you deliberately stupid? Of course it must not be because of BAT/APC that are ruining your future.

seunmsg:
lol. His grandfather named him Gbadebo but there is no Gbadebo on all his school certificates. Even his birth record had to be altered to reflect Gbadebo.

Continue to shalaye...you go tire like Obi the Taylor

Dindondin:
Lagos is Yorubaland. There's no way that state will accommodate other roots before first considering Yorubas. He shouldn't have been too far from his home. Nigerian tribes don't love each others genuinely so nobody should blame Yorubas for holding tight to their Lagos.
That is how every tribes act. This Chinedu cannot contest and win in his mother's state nor his sisters. In fact, his mother can't win in her state. If it's a lie, let them contest and see first class tribalism from their fellow tribes. It's reality of present day Nigeria that's not integrating.

Will you shut up!

It's funny how you Yoruba ethnic supremacists and bigoted lot are not equally quick to feel possessive and independent minded over Lagos when it comes to Nigeria pouring billions of dollars worth of investments and giving it preferential treatement over other states in the country! You sit and keep quiet...watching as Lagos receives benefits and advantages over and above other states, then spring into action to claim its governance and politics all for yourselves! This shamless greed you lot are exhibiting is all about trying to protect what you see as your godfather Tinubus' 'asset' of which you, his acolytes and hangers-on, equally selfishly benefit from by association!

What's giving you the effrontry to be this bold and brazen in your greed, xenophobia and attempts and cheating others is 'one Nigeria' and your belief that so long as Nigeria continues to exist, you can continue your thieving of Lagos gov't coffers and continue controlling its politics through thuggery and elecion manipulation/rigging!

You base your stake and 'ownership' of Lagos on THE ERRONEOUS CLAIM YOU INVENTED THAT LAGOS CAN ONLY BE GOVERNED BY YORUBAS', while at the same time overlooking and ignoring THE LEGITIMATE CLAIM OF OTHERS THAT THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION GIVES ALL NIGERIANS THE RIGHT TO CONTEST ELECTIONS AND VOTE IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY! You want other Nigerians to hands off Lagos, while at the same time ignoring the calls of indigenous Lagosians for non-Lagosians (including the Iragbiji set) to hands off governance of the state and leave it for them! You two-faced and hypocritical 'one Nigerianists' are sick in the head and need help!

Nnamdipapa:
It is wrong and I don't know what he was thinking about. As an Igbo and an educated person, I have never and will not use such a slur to refer to the Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. if I have an issue with you, I attack you directly and not your race. He is a tribalist, one of the reasons he lost the election. Now, his tribalism is not an excuse for you own tribalism or other people's tribalism though.

My own tribalism

You saw tribalism in anything I wrote up there, or in anything I have written in all my time on Nairaland?

You come across as a truth-twisting fella who defaults to false 'whataboutism" when you are caught out.

DeLaRue:
My own tribalism

You saw tribalism in anything I wrote up there, or in anything I have written in all my time on Nairaland?

You come across as a truth-twisting fella who defaults to false 'whataboutism" when your true mask falls off.

I mean it does not make you or anyone cancel him with tribalism, Not that you have even though he was clearly wrong and out of line. It is even more crazy when his father is a Yoruba.

emmanuelson20:
Gbadebo Chinedu Patrick Rhodes-Vivour is a dynamic individual with a rich cultural heritage. His father is Yoruba, while his mother is of Igbo descent, reflecting Nigeria's diverse ethnic tapestry. Married to Dr. Ifeyinwa Rhodes-Vivour, who is also Igbo, Gbadebo has embraced his maternal heritage by becoming fluent in Igbo. Interestingly, despite his Yoruba roots, he does not speak Yoruba.

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour imagines a Lagos where all ethnic groups are respected and empowered, fostering inclusivity and prosperity. He emphasizes the importance of sustainable development, accountable governance, and a strong opposition to promotes progress for every Lagosian.

As a visionary leader, Gbadebo seeks to become the Governor of Lagos State, driven by his desire to bring about positive change and unity in one of Nigeria's most influential regions.

He can use his vision for his mother's people cos certainly they need him more there than in Lagos

Difrent:
He can use his vision for his mother's people cos certainly they need him more there than in Lagos

Indeed. It is SE suffering from a dearth of credible leaders. Let Shinedu go and help them there as he clearly does "not think in Yoruba" and therefore should not seek to lead any State with a Yoruba majority.

It is not done anywhere in the world to show open and unapologetic disdain for a people and still insist you are best to lead them.

Slytiger:
Lmao. Oga rest. Gaslighting no longer works in 2025.

Igbo women 👇

You just confirmed that your women are the shameless oloshos that litter everywhere. They're banged and discarded here. Yoruba guys only pick the best and topclass professionals among your women to marry.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Will you shut up!

It's funny how you Yoruba ethnic supremacists and bigoted lot are not equally quick to feel possessive and independent minded over Lagos when it comes to Nigeria pouring billions of dollars worth of investments and giving it preferential treatement over other states in the country! You sit and keep quiet...watching as Lagos receives benefits and advantages over and above other states, then spring into action to claim its governance and politics all for yourselves! This shamless greed you lot are exhibiting is all about trying to protect what you see as your godfather Tinubus' 'asset' of which you, his acolytes and hangers-on, equally selfishly benefit from by association!

What's giving you the effrontry to be this bold and brazen in your greed, xenophobia and attempts and cheating others is 'one Nigeria' and your belief that so long as Nigeria continues to exist, you can continue your thieving of Lagos gov't coffers and continue controlling its politics through thuggery and elecion manipulation/rigging!

You base your stake and 'ownership' of Lagos on THE ERRONEOUS CLAIM YOU INVENTED THAT LAGOS CAN ONLY BE GOVERNED BY YORUBAS', while at the same time overlooking and ignoring THE LEGITIMATE CLAIM OF OTHERS THAT THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION GIVES ALL NIGERIANS THE RIGHT TO CONTEST ELECTIONS AND VOTE IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY! You want other Nigerians to hands off Lagos, while at the same time ignoring the calls of indigenous Lagosians for non-Lagosians (including the Iragbiji set) to hands off governance of the state and leave it for them! You two-faced and hypocritical 'one Nigerianists' are sick in the head and need help!

All your abused are ignored my friend. We are brothers you don't need to let your blood pressure rise.
But in all you said, can this constitution of Nigeria that you claimed allowed you to contest in all part of the country give you a chance to support someone not from your tribe to contest in your tribe's state?
Or simply put can someone not from your state contest in your state?
Can you give us statistics of how you yourself have been detribalized?
Practice what you preach. If you can't, hug transformer.
Lagos belonged to Yorubas. They dictate what they have. If change of govt should occur, the Yorubas there will decide. In whatever way these words may hurt you, just take a glass of water and move on.

Dindondin:
All your abused are ignored my friend. We are brothers you don't need to let your blood pressure rise.
But in all you said, can this constitution of Nigeria that you claimed allowed you to contest in all part of the country give you a chance to support someone not from your tribe to contest in your tribe's state?
Or simply put can someone not from your state contest in your state?
Can you give us statistics of how you yourself have been detribalized?
Practice what you preach. If you can't, hug transformer.
Lagos belonged to Yorubas. They dictate what they have. If change of govt should occur, the Yorubas there will decide. In whatever way these words may hurt you, just take a glass of water and move on.

To start with we are not and can never be friends or brothers!

Dude, anyone from any part of Nigeria is free to contest elections in any part of Alaigbo or the south-east, and if they manage to convince the electorate on the plans and vision they have for the people, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be voted into office! That being said…are there some idiotic Igbo that equally share your bigoted, selfish annd hypocritical approach to politics at the sub-national level? Sure there are! And it’s your hypocritical ilk that best make the case for those of us who believe Nigeria is being forced to exist on fraudulent or weak foundations, and has long since past it use by date!

Given the history and peculiar nature of African ethnic groups, and issues of domination/control and territory that are usually part of the conversation involving politics and governance on the continent, even i can make the case for a preference for political office holders to emerge from within the group that’s indigenous to the place in question! However a nuanced assessment needs to be made for each situation to take into account other considerations or variables that are peculiar to each case! Zeroing in on Nigeria, any honest assessment will lead one to the conclusion that Abuja and Lagos are unique cases, therefore politics and governance should be treated differently in these sub-national units and have a PAN-NIGERIAN flavour in contrast to other sub-national units like say Anambra, Ogun, Kano, Plateau or Rivers states. If i see any Igbo going to contest the gubernatorial position in say Kano, i’d understand, even if i don’t agree with it, if Kano indigenes tell him in no uncertain terms where to go! I would recognise his constitutional right to contest said election, but even i would advise him against it for the reasons i stated above!

However, the issue changes when it comes to Abuja or Lagos that are the common patrimony of ALL Nigerians, as they were built and developed with the efforts and resources of ALL Nigerians! When the capital of the country moved to Abuja from Lagos in the early 90s, did the Yoruba ethnicity repay the different ethnic groups and regions of Nigeria all the billions of dollars worth of infrastructure, preferential federal gov’t policies and attention that was channeled towards Lagos to the detriment of other component parts of the country!? If the Yoruba haven’t or are yet to make full payment, then YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEMAND THAT THE REST OF NIGERIA SHOULD HANDS OFF LAGOS AND LEAVE ITS POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE SOLELY IN THE HANDS OF THE YORUBA ETHNIC GROUP! Making such a demand from one corner of your mouth while using the other corner to scream ’one Nigeria like your life depends on it shows on your part a crass display of greed, covetousness, shamelessness, parasitism and parapoism!

This entire issue takes a more sinister colouration when it’s a fellow Yoruba you’re working to sabotage his gubernatorial ambitions for Lagos just because his Mum is Igbo! Forget all those useless ‘excuses’ you’re putting out there that you don’t want him because he ‘abused’ whoever or whatever! That’s just trying to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it! Whatever he may have said would have most certainly been directed at selfish xenophobes like your ilk, who use Yoruba parapoism to pull wool over the eyes of naive and unsuspecting Yoruba people just so you can protect the political and economic hegemonic interests of you Iragbiji godfather against the lawful political ambitions of a true Lagos indigene! I suspect Giannis Antetokumbo has seen how the irascible Iragbiji set are giving the wider Yoruba nation a bad name over the GRV issue, and having similar ethnic heritage as GRV, he would be able to empathise with his position and made then made the conscious decision to distance himself from you lot! He or his brothers are probably on here observing proceedings as we speak!

You want to keep Lagos for yourselves, yet want our oyel and gas to be shared by all component parts using large and useless landmass and questionable population numbers which would obviously leave the south-east holding the short end of the stick! You want VAT to be shared based on 50% derivation (or whatever the figure is) which you know will disproportionately benefit Lagos state, yet smugly sit by and chuckle quietly as the oyel producing states get a miserly 13% for their troubles!

Fact of the matter is you want ’one Nigeria’ only to the extent that it primarily services the economic, political and territorial interests of the Yoruba and your Fulani allies, and this possibly explains why you detest Mazi Kanu and IPOB so passionately!

DMerciful:
Why only Lagos?

Nobody is interested in other Yoruba states. Lagos belongs to all Nigerians equally

Just as anambra, imo and Enugu belong to all Nigeria, so why are you m0rons crying for Biafra then

HardBishop:
So you have the audacity to marry Igbo while spewing this statement.... It amazes me why my women easily fall for una antics and accept marriage
Honestly it baffles me

If she has village mentality like you stolen baby product I won't move close, I can't marry mad people still manage their mentality join

wifeesnatcher:
Just as anambra, imo and Enugu belong to all Nigeria, so why are you m0rons crying for Biafra then

Dude, it doesn’t work that way! Each component unit is made up of indigenous peoples who have the right to agitate for separation if they feel their lives and progress is being negatively impacted by the Nigerian state. Lagos indigenes as well as indigenes of Ogun, Oyo, etc, are equally free to agitate for separation from Nigeria….it’s well within their rights! Till such a time as when said separation is achieved, all Nigerians resident in these states are entitled to avail themselves of the full compliment of rights and privileges available to them under the Nigerian constitution!

Visionary ko vision less ni.

Una go explain tire. Our gran mothers go come use interpreter to talk to governor. Tufiakwa. Forget it bo.

All this children refusing to learn your father tongue now you know it limits your options.

Na Chinedu we know. Gbadebo na last minute attachée

emmanuelson20:
Gbadebo Chinedu Patrick Rhodes-Vivour is a dynamic individual with a rich cultural heritage. His father is Yoruba, while his mother is of Igbo descent, reflecting Nigeria's diverse ethnic tapestry. Married to Dr. Ifeyinwa Rhodes-Vivour, who is also Igbo, Gbadebo has embraced his maternal heritage by becoming fluent in Igbo. Interestingly, despite his Yoruba roots, he does not speak Yoruba.

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour imagines a Lagos where all ethnic groups are respected and empowered, fostering inclusivity and prosperity. He emphasizes the importance of sustainable development, accountable governance, and a strong opposition to promotes progress for every Lagosian.

As a visionary leader, Gbadebo seeks to become the Governor of Lagos State, driven by his desire to bring about positive change and unity in one of Nigeria's most influential regions.