Olushola Omogbehin
Following the resignation of the Director of Mobilisation for the Obidient Movement, Morris Monye, the movement is once again faced with a season of uncertainty that is capable of drifting it further apart from its establishment objective.
This was disclosed by Ngogbehei, the Founding Chairman of the Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO) while reacting to the resignation of a prominent mobiliser of the movement, Morris Monye, who quit the movement citing “harassment, lack of support, and abandonment.”
Ngogbehei said the resignation of Monye’s is a further testament to the long-standing poor leadership structures, poor support for volunteers, and taking decisions without consultation with the groups that built the movement ahead of the 2023 elections.
“In May 2022, over a dozen independent support groups came together under the Coalition for Peter Obi,” he recalled.
Explaining further, the One Million Man March and the first Obidient Leadership Summit which were part of the early mobilisation strategies of the movement were funded by volunteers who believed in creating a viable political alternative.
According to him, some major events that launched the movement to prominence such as the Global Obidient March of February 2023 had no central funding as well and many volunteers who contributed personal resources run into debt. He said Peter Obi did not donate a kobo to that historic effort.
Criticizing the appointments made by Peter Obi in 2024, whereby the foundational groups were not consulted, he said some of the appointments did not reflect the movement’s original structure.
“The Obidient Movement remains underfunded, leaderless in function, and driven by the same unpaid volunteers who carried it on their backs from the beginning,” he stated.
Alleging that some funds were privately managed by Obi’s associates without transparency, Ngogbehei believes that Obidient Movement can still recover if it returns to its grassroots-driven model.
