A member of the Labour Party 2023 Presidential Campaign Team, for Peter Obi and Datti Ahmed, Aisha Yesufu, has stated that Obi did not create the Obidient Movement.
Recall that Obi and his running mate Datti who ran for the 2023 presidential election was propelled by the Obidient Movement.
But one of the frontline campaigners of the movement, Yesufu has come out to state that the Obidient movement was formed by Obi.
According to Yesufu, the movement was formed from the the fallout of the EndSARS killings of 2020.
Yesufu pointed out that the collective anger by Nigerian youths led to the formation of the Obidient movement. And because the youths were angry with the system, Peter Obi became a beneficiary of the anger.
She stated this in a post on her X platform.
Yesufu wrote: “Nobody created Obidient Movement. After the #EndSARS killing by APC Government many became interested in politics. This is because they were mocked and told to vote those who killed the protesters.
“There was a collective anger to vote out APC. Peter Obi was a beneficiary of that collective anger of the people.
“When he made his intentions to run for presidency many with that collective anger supported him. And from there, the name was coined to fit the candidate. That was following the habit of naming supporters after a person supported in Nigeria.
“There was already a movement before the name Obidient was coined,” Yesufu said.