Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has launched an online registration portal and identity cards for members of his Obidient Movement in Nigeria and in the diaspora.
The Obidient movement originated in 2022 following the social media popularity of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.
In a statement on Saturday, Yunusa Tanko, national coordinator, and Nana Kazaure, director of strategic communications and media, described the portal as the fulfilment of a long-cherished aspiration, representing “a journey of resilience, focus, oneness, strength and beauty”.
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According to the movement, the portal is open to Nigerians and supporters in the diaspora.
“Obidient registration portal supports Nigerians and fellow Obidients living in the diaspora,” the statement reads.
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“You will observe that the ID has a flag on it. For example, if you’re not resident in Nigeria, the top right-hand corner will carry the flag of your country of residence.
“That way, we can all witness first-hand the embodying of our spirit of diversity, comradery, and unity and how far-reaching the messaging Obidient Movement is.
“The OBX is constant on the ID card. The Diasporan and Nigerian cards, all start with the same prefix which is the OBX.
“The QR code on the bottom right-hand corner is there to authenticate your card, which can be scanned with any QR scanner such as a smartphone, to give Obidients a secure and confident way of interacting with one another.
“So if you choose to support or do business with an Obidient, you can scan the QR code or verify the OBX ID online to confirm that the person is who and what they truly say they are and are who they truly claim to be.”
The url for the Obidient movement portal is obidients.com.
Meanwhile, the Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Dr Ayo Olorunfemi, has advised the 2023 LP presidential candidate to ignore all calls to dump the party ahead of the 2027 general election.
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Olorunfemi, also the LP Candidate in the 2024 Ondo governorship election, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos that Obi should rather focus on rebuilding the party.
NAN reports that some quarters have called on Obi to leave the party and join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
One of those making the calls, Mr Segun Sowunmi,a former PDP governorship candidate in Ogun,said during a television interview on Thursday that Obi’s return to his former party would brighten the PDP’s chances in 2027.
According to Sowunmi,Obi, who left the PDP for the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, owes much of his national political recognition to his time at PDP.
Olorunfemi, who noted that though Obi was at liberty under the law to associate with any political party of his choice, said he needed to be wary of what he called dangerous advances.
He said: “Now that he has contested and he has seen the LP force, if he decides to go to another political party, it will then speak volumes of his intention.
“It will tell whether he truly believed in the ideology of the Labour Party before coming to run, or he just wanted to use the opportunity of the platform.
“So, it will now be left for Nigerians to decide whether Obi ,who got millions of votes under the Labour Party, can still be voted for under PDP or another party.
“He (Obi) must use his tongue to count his teeth. If I were he , what I will be doing now is working to restore peace in Labour Party and rebuild it
“He should find a way to resolve the issues in the party and remain on the platform. He should remain in the party and restore peace.He should stay and resolve the crises he and others created in LP.
“Moving around will portray him as an opportunistic politician not different from these politicians jumping here and there,” he said.
Noting that Obi had the capacity to resolve the crisis in Labour Party, Olorunfemi said that some aspirants shelved their ambitions in 2022 to allow Obi use the LP platform to run for president.
He, however, said that if Obi decided to dump the LP, the party would continue to exist as a strong opposition party.
Speaking on the leadership crisis in the party, Olorunfemi said that Mr Julius Abure-led LP National Working Committee (NWC) never wronged Obi and others fighting against it.
He said that members of the NWC, including himself, risked their lives and endured vitriolic attacks from different groups and persons for supporting Obi’s presidential ambition in the last election.
“What is the offence of Abure? He stood in the sun, stood in the rain. All of us in the NWC stood by him (Obi). In spite of all the attacks, we stood by him.
“My own people, in the course of fighting for him (Obi) ,called me names for fighting for for someone not from my tribe. LP is blind to ethnicity and I supported him because believe in politics devoid of ethnic sentiment.
“There is bound to be crisis. People will come with different things in mind, but we have to moderate everything like we are doing now in LP
“Everything we are doing in the Labour Party is in line with our constitution.That is our strength.
“Anybody that wants to challenge the authority of the NWC should challenge it to the constitution.
“They should show us the aspect of the constitution that has been violated.If they confront us with the facts ,then we will agree with them,” the chieftain said.
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