Edo Labour Party fumes as Obidient Movement backs APC candidate
A group on the platform of Obidient Movement has pledged support for the Edo State All Progressives Congress candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, ahead of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state.
The group, which comprised members from the Edo South Senatorial District, yesterday, declared support for the APC candidate because of his close ties with the people.
However, the Edo State chapter of the Labour Party condemned the support to the APC candidate, saying that it was absurd for people who called themselves members of the Obidient Movement to support candidates of other parties.
The Obidient Movement, a youth movement which became famous during the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, was to coordinate and propagate the activities of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, for the election.
After the election, the party, under the leadership of Julius Abure, created the Obidient Directorate to cater to the yearnings of the members, but it was renamed after Obi’s rebuttal.
Obi had claimed that the Obidient Movement did not belong to any political party and should not be named as a directorate of any party.
Speaking during a meeting with Okpebholo, the Coordinator General of the Obidient Movement for Okpebholo, Ikhuenbor Igbinevbo, described the members of the movement as lovers of good governance, fairness and accountability.
Okpebholo, receiving the group, lauded the members for the support and pledged to repay the confidence reposed in him if voted to power.
