Kayode Salako, former Lagos State Chairman of Labour Party and the governorship candidate of the party in the recently concluded governorship election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, have been at each other’s throats in recent times. It started after Salako penned a lengthy note on how Rhodes-Vivour betrayed him after nominating him as the choice candidate of the Labour party. Salako claimed that he ensured Rhodes-Vivour got the needed support to emerge as the party’s candidate without requesting anything from him when other governorship candidates from other parties paid millions of naira to him to help them secure the party’s ticket.
According to Salako, Rhodes-Vivour started making moves to push him aside, away from the governorship project. He said the governorship candidate ran a one-man show while sidelining almost all the Yoruba elders and prominent leaders in the party.
Salako also alleged that Rhodes-Vivour worked with his detractors to sabotage his efforts as the state chairman of the party. The LP chieftain revealed that his only sin for being betrayed was because he reported Rhodes-Vivour to the leaders of the party so that he could do the right things, which he never did.
Reacting to Salako’s lengthy note, Rhodes-Vivour rained invectives on the former LP chairman, describing him as one suffering from bipolar disorder.
