Peter Obi Didn’t Create the Obidient Movement, Says Aisha Yesufu

Peter Obi Didn’t Create the Obidient Movement, Says Aisha Yesufu

Aisha Yesufu, a member of the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential campaign team, stated that Peter Obi, the party’s candidate in the last general election, did not create the Obidient movement.

Yesufu explained that the Obidient movement emerged as a result of the fallout from the EndSARS killings. She emphasized that the collective anger of Nigerian youths led to the formation of the movement, of which Obi became a beneficiary.

Posting on X, Yesufu wrote: “Nobody created the Obidient movement. After the #EndSARS killings by the APC government, many became interested in politics since they were mocked and told to vote out those who killed the protesters. There was a collective anger to vote out the APC. Peter Obi was a beneficiary of that collective anger.

“When he announced his intention to run for presidency, many who shared that collective anger supported him. From there, the name was coined to fit the candidate, following the habit of naming supporters after the person they back in Nigeria. There was already a movement before the name OBIdient was coined.”