{"id":886,"date":"2023-03-16T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=886"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:22:09","slug":"group-to-lagosians-reject-rhodes-vivour-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/group-to-lagosians-reject-rhodes-vivour-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Group to Lagosians: reject Rhodes-Vivour on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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.<\/span><\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}