2027: Learning Yoruba not enough – Lagos APC tackles Rhodes-Vivour

The Lagos State section of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has challenged the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, to show a broader knowing of Lagos beyond his determination to larn Yoruba up of the 2027 governorship election.

The APC Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo, made the telephone connected Tuesday successful absorption to Rhodes-Vivour’s revelation that helium had hired a Yoruba teacher and was present capable to run successful the indigenous language.

Rhodes-Vivour disclosed this during an interrogation connected Arise TV, wherever helium acknowledged the value of connection and civilization but maintained that his precedence was addressing the challenges confronting residents crossed the state.

Reacting, Oladejo welcomed the ADC candidate’s effort to larn Yoruba but questioned whether speaking the connection unsocial was capable to show an knowing of Lagos and its people.

“Language is 1 of the gateways to knowing people. It carries history, humour, values, idioms, traditions and ways...