By Adedamola Adetayo
Gbadebo Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour is ever ony inch Ibo in looks, mentality, mindset, character,. leanings and loyalty. His GREAT-GRANDFATHER was born a FULL IBO MAN
His mother Nkechi is no ordinary Ibo, she is from Anambra, headquarters of Ibo Zionism
He openly supported IPOB and its attack on Lagos in 2020 ENDSARS madness. He breathes Ibo.
His wife Ify is no ordinary Ibo, she is daughter Augustine Aniebo, a man who was notorious for his many evil deeds as a soldier in the Biafran Army during the war in the Calabar flanks.
It is not by accident Chinedu found himself in this role he is playing today, he was specially handpicked. There is a history behind it and it all happened under the noses of our liberal fathers who couldn’t have been bothered.
Garnet, his IBO GREAT-GRANDFATHER was planted in Lagos, perhaps inadvertently, by Samuel Ajayi Crowther who went about happily helping the British to set the nodes of our destruction. He was totally blinded by the Bible and lost in the euphoria of his own self-importance until he was cut to size and reminded that he was just a black nobody. He couldn’t be Anglican Bishop of Lagos over Oyinbo people. As at July 2007 when I saw his ancestral Osoogun village and the church inside which he is reputed to have done the work of translating the English Bible into Yoruba language, I thought it was something from the stone age. It was just a rusty and decaying village.
Our people didn’t notice as Garnet blended into the SARO population, married Sarah and converted to Yoruba.
Akinwunmi, his GRANDFATHER who magically assumed Yoruba ANCESTRY on account of his IBO father birthing him in Lagos, was a contemporary of Azikiwe. In fact I understand that the main family house of the Rhodes-Vivour in Lagos is at a location in the Ikeja area called “Ilé Zik”.
Azikiwe got his in-roads into the Lagos politics through men like Akinwunmi and they got to Herbert Macaulay through the link of Garnet who was a childhood friend and contemporary of Herbert Macaulay. Herbert Macaulay and Garnet Rhodes-Vivour were themselves Grandchildren of Ajayi Crowther and Vivour who were also childhood friends, contemporaries and co-survivours of slave ships based in Sierra Leone.
The agenda of Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour should have naturally blended with the aspirations of the SAROS who, as the PRIVILEGED ELITES of the time in accordance with their privileged exposures deliberately given to them by the British in Sierra Leon, were already very CONTEMPTUOUS of the indigenous Awori Lagosians who were their hosts.
Nnamdi Azikiwe simply keyed into the confusion. Next thing they did was to ISOLATE the indigenous Aworis from the larger Yoruba Nation to make their job easier. And they were very successful.
Azikiwe already got NCNC structures transferred to him from Herbert Macaulay and he swiftly filled the whole place with his Ibo people.
Men like Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour while acting as Yoruba gave Azikiwe and his kinsmen the needed leverage to overrun the indigenous Awori people of Lagos Island. The SAROS had all the advantage in money, education, contact with the Europeans,. exposure, everything. Azikiwe and his kinsmen simply keyed into it and got their giant leap in Lagos through all those nonsense.
Believe it not, Madam Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti of Egba land was there with Herbert Macaulay and Azikiwe in that NCNC. Ijebu man, Adeniran Ogunsanya, was also there. They must all have assumed it was just POLITICS.
In their naivety they could NEVER have seen ZIONISM unfolding under their noses. It wasn’t a common phenomenon at the time in the 1930s and 1940s. Azikiwe saw it in America in the height of the Ashekanazi Jews evil’s upturn of Palestine.
Azikiwe was unstoppable until Obafemi Awolowo, Bode Thomas, Ladoke Akintola and other notable men from the UPCOUNTRY YORUBA LAND emerged from nowhere with the Egbe Omo Odùdúwà in the faraway UK.
They knew their history. They knew the land of ÈKÓ was part of the larger Yoruba Nation with spiritual base in Ilé-ifé, Political and Military bases in Oyo and Ibadan respectively. They knew that the AWORIS migrated from Ile-ife, Ilesa, Oyo etc to those locations in Èkó, Ọ̀tà and everywhere in the places now called Lagos State.
They knew that Èkó has been a prosperous port town as far back as 600 years before Azikiwe’s father was born. They knew AWORI was part of Kóòtú Òjíire.
In Lagos, Azikiwe was telling them otherwise. He was preaching “Nationalism” and they branded Herbert Macaulay a “Nationalist” as he was blind to the trouble enveloping Yoruba land.
Eventually Azikiwe was stopped and the rest of it is what has resurrected in Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour today.
It is the same familiar road, not a slight difference. Gbadebo is standing in for Akinwunmi and Peter Obi is the new Zik.
They are telling the Aworis of Lagos that they are not Yoruba and telling the Yoruba people that we are not Lagosians.
They are telling them that a Rhodes-Vivour who thinks in IBO and whose GREAT-GRANDFATHER was IBO is more Lagosian than me who think in Yoruba, born in Lagos and with uncountable generations from Ijebu land.
They are desperately wishing for a Lagos that will be left alone in the hands of “Lagosians” and Ibos to manage. They want only “Lagosians” to rule Lagos so the millions of imposters like Chinedu will come out and say they are Lagosians.
A very ignorant Oba Elegushi was saying in PUBLIC that he has no business with Yoruba Nation and that ” Èkó Dádúró ni”. Such a statement from an Oba! It is what the IBO ZIONISTS are making him say for a reason known to him.
The ONLY reason Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour will ever think he qualifies for Governor of Lagos State is that he is aware that the Zionist Agenda of DEMOGRAPHIC ALTERATIONS have either been completed or in advanced stages of completion.
Believe me, in another 30 years at the rate we are going, 50% of the current Ibo population of the South-East should have emptied in Lagos to join what they already have and would then probably constitute 70% of Lagos VOTER Population. It is what they are doing.
They will keep telling you to preach against Bigotry and Tribalism so it can be easier for them to destroy you completely.
*Adedamola Adetayo is a public affairs analyst
© Adedamola Adetayo
16 September 2025
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