Marianne Phillip Abi Habib

Why my son bears Igbo name - Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour's father

Olawale Rhodes-Vivour has revealed the reason why his son, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos, bears an Igbo name. Since Gbadebo contested the 2023 election and lost, his detractors have capitalised on the fact that he bears an Igbo name, Chinedu. According to them, Gbadebo's lack of fluency in the Yoruba language is because he leans more towards the Igbo ethnicity of his mother, Nkechi. However, in an interview going viral on social media, his father went down memory lane to authenticate Gbadebo as a Yoruba man. He said, "The only way I can authenticate Gbadebo’s situation is to give a timeline from when he was born till now to establish exactly where he was, at what time and what he was doing. "I married his mother, Mrs Nkechi Rhodes-Vivour, on the 28th day of August 1982 at Port Harcourt. The next year Gbadebo was born at Ejire Memorial Medical Centre by Doctor Olurin.