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

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

Yesufu explained that the Obidient movement emerged as a direct response to the EndSARS protests and the subsequent killings by the APC government. According to her, the collective anger among Nigerian youths played a crucial role in the formation of the movement, which Peter Obi later benefited from.

In a post on X, Yesufu stated, “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 for those who killed the protesters. There was a collective anger to vote out the APC. Peter Obi was a beneficiary of that collective anger.”

She added, “When he made his intentions to run for the presidency, many with that collective anger supported him, and from there the name was coined to fit the candidate, following the habit of naming supporters after a person supported in Nigeria. There was already a movement before the name Obidient was coined.”