The former Labour party gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 general elections in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has slammed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over what he termed as draconian style each time he enters Lagos state. He cited how difficult they have made traffic movement in lagos seem each time Tinubu visits as they block majority of the roads to make movement easier for Tinubu whilst making it extremely difficult for innocent Nigerians.
He went ahead to cite how Presidents of other countries move around without disturbing the peace of other citizens unlike what we experience in Nigeria.
He wrote below :
“I understand that it hurts the president deeply to have lost Lagos in the last election but acting like conquistador as a pay back, where thousands of people must endure agonizing stress and chaos consistently everytime you’re in town, is going a bridge too far.
I lived in Paris for a couple of years, and not once did we experience chaos because the President was driving past our district.
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When I was in London, not only did I once shop in the same store as the Mayor, I have on several occasions been in the same vicinity as the Prime Minister. Not once did our lives have to pause for the PM to drive or walk past.
This obsession with being the” big man” – viewing citizens as subjects who are beneath and should be trampled on, is the reason you lost in 2023 and is the reason you will lose again in 2027.
I make bold to remind you that you are in office to SERVE the people,
and this same people you have kept trapped in traffic for hours, who missed doctors appointment, a loved ones event, a business transaction or whose minds have had to endure this humiliation, will certainly have their day soon.
#ourlagos”
This is such an unfortunate situation we find in Nigeria..
Only if these leaders realize that Nigerians are the employers of these so-called leaders they worship, all these won’t stop.
You see them violating Traffic 🚥 laws, hitting motorists in a commando style that seems so demeaning to citizens… That’s where Nigerians have found themselves.