Lagos governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said he will conduct his campaign in Yoruba ahead of the 2027 governorship election.
Rhodes-Vivour made this known during an interview on Arise
TV on Thursday.
He was responding to questions about his inability to speak
Yoruba, an issue that featured prominently in criticism of him during the 2023
campaign following an interview in which he said he did not “think in Yoruba.”
The ADC candidate said he had taken steps since then to
learn the language, noting that language and culture were important to his
engagement with voters in Lagos.
“This tribal thing, speaking language situation and all
that. Yes, culture and language is very important and I’ve gotten a Yoruba
teacher, and I’ve learned Yoruba, and I’ll campaign in Yoruba, and that is
wonderful,” he said.
Rhodes-Vivour, however, said language and ethnicity would
not be the only focus of his campaign, pointing to issues he said affect Lagos
residents irrespective of their backgrounds.
“My passionate interest is to ensure that we have a Lagos
that no longer stinks,” he said.
He identified flooding, housing and traffic as some of the
challenges confronting residents, arguing that their effects were experienced
across the state.
“All of us are going to — when you translate it — all of us
are going to hear the smell. Everybody is experiencing the failure of our
flooding, of our housing crisis, of the traffic, of the loss of dignity of
Lagosians, and that connects all of us, regardless of language,” he added.
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