{"id":12670,"date":"2023-03-16T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:27:08","slug":"group-urge-lagosians-to-reject-lp-rhodes-vivour-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12670","title":{"rendered":"Group Urge Lagosians To Reject LP, Rhodes-Vivour On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A socio-political organisation, Social Rehabilitation Group (SRG), has urged Lagosians to reject the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour, at the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The SRG leader, Oludare Marindotin, accused Vivour-Rhodes of hate speech by saying on a popular television programme that \u201cI don\u2019t think in Yoruba language.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn the first place, how can somebody, who wants to be governor in a Yoruba community, lack any understanding of Yoruba language and still be gallivanting about such deficiency?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe trivialised Yoruba language, which is our heritage, calling it primordial sentiments and saying: \u2018I don\u2019t think in Yoruba language. I went to school in MIT, Nottingham, France\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe should stray to his highfalutin MIT, Nottingham and France to govern them. Canada is a multilingual country. The Premier of Quebec must speak French, so is the Premier of French-speaking parts of Belgium. You can\u2019t be Prime Minister of England if you don\u2019t speak English language or of India if you don\u2019t speak Hindi language.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/group-to-lagosians-reject-rhodes-vivour-on-saturday\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A socio-political organisation, Social Rehabilitation Group (SRG), has urged Lagosians to reject the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour, at the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2271,5097,6570,6630],"class_list":["post-12670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lagosians","tag-lp","tag-rhodes-vivour","tag-srg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12672,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions\/12672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}