₦airaland Forum

PRESS STATEMENT

APC MUST END ITS POLITICAL THUGGERY OR NIGERIANS WILL END IT FOR THEM

The Obidient Movement totally condemns the reported attack on members of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) @NigeriaNDCHQ and innocent Nigerians by APC-sponsored thugs during the One Million Man March in Warri, Delta State on Friday, September 18, 2026.

This history of growing political violence in Delta State is not an isolated concern. The NDC candidate for Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator @OvieOmoAgege, previously alleged that armed men attacked his convoy in Delta, leaving six NDC members injured.

The APC denied involvement, but Nigerians know the party that believes in political violence as a way of grabbing, snatching and running away with the people’s mandate.

In a recent video, the national leader of the APC, Mr. Bola Tinubu @officialABAT, carelessly stated that all is fair in politics, thereby inviting his foot soldiers to arms and violence. What has followed ever since then has left much to be desired.

There have been multiple videos of APC governors, local government chairmen and other office holders threatening Nigerians not to vote in their domains if they have no intention of voting to continue the misery that Tinubu and his sadistic government have reduced Nigerians to.

These threats have lately metamorphosed into actual violence across different states, while security agencies either provide cover for the thugs or look away as these political thugs perpetuate violence.

On Saturday, September 12, 2026, armed hoodlums attacked a grassroots ward meeting and voter sensitisation gathering organised by the NDC at Ihuani Awkunanaw in Obuofia, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State. Eight innocent Nigerians were shot by these thugs, and nobody has been brought to justice.

On this note, the Obidient Movement is putting security agencies, the APC and their thugs on notice: Obidients and Nigerians in general will no longer sit back as lame ducks throughout the campaign season and on election day while political thugs attack Nigerians exercising their democratic rights.

Obidients and Nigerians everywhere have a constitutional right to campaign, mobilise, assemble and support candidates of their choice. We will defend those rights through any and every means available to us, including lawful resistance, mass mobilisation, and even self-defence, as guaranteed by Section 33, and Subsection 2(a) of the Nigerian Constitution.

If the security agencies saddled with the responsibility of maintaining law and order have decided to become partisan and shield political thugs perpetrating violence, it is important to emphasise that nobody has a monopoly of violence, and Nigerians will now return violence for violence whenever the need arises.This will only lead to anarchy, but that is what the APC has consistently called for.

The party has continued to perpetuate violence in the belief that Nigerians will not return the favour.
That time is now in the past. Let the APC and its political thugs be warned: Nigeria does not belong to you. It belongs to all of us.

No political party has the right to determine who can campaign, where Nigerians can gather or who they can support. If the APC believes it can unleash thugs against opposition supporters and expect Nigerians to simply run away, remain silent and surrender their democratic rights, it is making a serious mistake.

We are peaceful, but we are not helpless. We will not initiate violence, but neither will we surrender our people to intimidation. Henceforth, every violent act by the APC and its thugs against Nigerians will be returned in equal or double measure.

They are in the minority, and Nigerians will overwhelm them even in their own turf. This country belongs to Nigerians, not Tinubu and his thugs.

The 2027 election must be decided by Nigerians at the ballot box, not by political thugs on the streets.

Nigeria must be OK.

Signed,
Media & Communications Directorate
The Obidient Movement

cc: @PoliceNG, @inecnigeria, @DHQNigeria, @EUCouncil, @ARISEtv, @NewsCentralTV. @channelstv, @cnni

Validated:
When peaceful change is made impossible, violent change become inevitable. Tinubu should know he if not 1/10th of Abacha. Either he vacates Aso Rock peacefully or we will chase him out like Gbagbo. Noone has monopolyof violence.

T9ksy:
Tinubu is not vacating aso rock for you guys, anytime soon, so go do you worst.
Go and chase him out of aso rock for your packaged fraud, make we dey look una.

Penguin2:
If you think Peter Obi is a packaged fraud, why don’t you let Nigerians make that decision in peace by themselves?

Why do you lots claim Tinubu is popular but are still too scared late opposition operate?

T9ksy:
Tinubu is not vacating aso rock for you guys, anytime soon, so go do you worst.
Go and chase him out of aso rock for your packaged fraud, make we dey look una.

Curious345:
I just know that APC will loose the next election

Imalwayshorny:
Na so you talk for 2022 who later win more tears to you in 2027

Curious345:
Peter Obi or Atiku Abubakar is our next C in C.

Curious345:
Peter Obi or Atiku Abubakar is our next C in C.

QuantumComputer:
They tried to use a coup, in 1966 for their greed it did not work, they tried to use Biafra in 1967 for their greed, that failed too, now they are trying to use Obi for their greed!