Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, supporters of former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, consisting mostly of the Obidient Movement have launched a grassroots mobilization tagged, ‘Village Boys Movement’.
The ‘Village Boys Movement’ was launched as a rival platform to counter the ‘City Boys Movement’ organized by President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, for the President’s re-election.
Convener of the Village Boys Movement, Maazị Tochukwu Ezeoke, who addressed supporters in Abuja on Thursday, named himself a ‘Village Headmaster’.
According to him, the movement “represents a Nigeria that works before it earns and earns before it spends”.
He, however, clarified that the initiative was “not hostility toward cities”, stating that it is rather a “moral contrast”.
“The issue is not geography but the source of wealth, the ethics of leadership, and the structure of accountability,” he added.
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