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OK movement demands apology from NDC, rejects intimidation

The Obi-Kwankwaso Movement, popularly known as the OK Movement, has demanded an immediate apology from the Nigeria Democratic Congress over statements by the party’s National Chairman, Senator Moses Cleopas, concerning its recently unveiled 59-member Presidential Campaign Council.

The movement also warned that it would not be intimidated or surrender its independence, insisting that it remained an independent political organisation with its own leadership, structure and internal processes.

The movement’s National Secretary, Saadatu Sani, gave the warning in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.

The development followed the NDC’s decision to dissociate itself from the campaign council unveiled by the group on Thursday to mobilise support for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Rabiu Kwankwaso.

The NDC, in a statement by Cleopas on Saturday night, said the council did not emanate from the party and should be disregarded.

Cleopas also warned that no individual, candidate or support group was authorised to constitute or announce a campaign structure in the party’s name without prior approval from its National Working Committee.

But responding in a statement on Sunday, Sani described the position of the NDC chairman as unfortunate and said it reflected a misunderstanding of the movement’s character and independence.

Sani urged Cleopas to familiarise himself with the NDC constitution before making assertions about the rights and responsibilities of the movement.

She said, “The OK Movement does not engage in such politics. We will not be dragged into a politics of personal insults, intimidation or defamatory exchanges. We will continue to educate rather than abuse. We will continue to defend the principles upon which this movement was established.

“The NDC national chairman is therefore called upon to withdraw the statements considered defamatory and to tender an immediate apology to the OK Movement and to our Director General, Hon. John Ughulu.”

The movement said it recognised the supremacy of political parties within their constitutional and statutory spheres and would campaign for Obi and Kwankwaso as well as NDC candidates that it resolves to support across the country.

However, the group insisted that such support did not make it a subordinate structure of the party.

“We will campaign for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the party. We will campaign for candidates of the NDC Party across the country where the movement has resolved to support them.

“But we do not require the personal validation or approval of any individual before exercising our legitimate organisational functions,” Sani said.

According to her, the movement had developed a nationwide grassroots structure with an internal database representing approximately 2.5 million registered members and coordinators.

She emphasised that the movement was not a temporary support group created for the 2027 elections but an organisation with a long-term political vision.

The OK Movement secretary also rejected allegations concerning Ughulu’s involvement in the Lagos State primary and said they welcomed the opportunity to put their position on record.

Sani said they would not engage in what she described as personal insults, intimidation or defamatory exchanges, adding that they would continue to defend its members when their integrity was questioned.

https://punchng.com/ok-movement-demands-apology-from-ndc-rejects-intimidation/

If Obi wants to know his genuine supporters and allies, he should abolish any form of fundraising outside of the party structure. The likes of Aisha are now passive ever since it became clear that Dickson Jung Un is fully in-charge of fundraising. From BringBackOurGirls to EndSARS to Obidient Movement, if fundraising is not involved, count Aisha out!

Put money and watch people's fang .

Senator Dickson oya goan apologize to una miscreants.

Apology Kee una there , you must obey what supreme leader of NDC said or leave the party

Dickson is a big fool. He thinks he can pocket independent thinkers?

Dickson is a mad drunk.

Hmmmmm. Na wa o. This is getting serious

OK Movement had no right to constitute a presidential campaign organization. That was undermining the party and the candidates.

The OK Movement is creating the impression that they are bigger than the party. They have repeatedly refused to cooperate with the party. There is a pattern here. In 2023, Labour Party was excluded from participating in voters' mobilization and arranging for polling unit agents. Aisha Yesufu, who was not even a member of the Labour Party, was put in charge of mobilizing party agents. Were the agents mobilized? Aisha ordered them to work and get paid later. They stayed at home instead. So the excess money that Aisha saved from her refusal to pay polling unit agents went into post election litigation. I have not seen where election litigation costs more than the election preparation itself.

If the OK Movement doesnt want to respect the NDC, they can form their own party. The behaviour they took to LP is what they brought to NDC.

Dick abi Dickson is playing with fire 🔥


In fact it seems he is not prepared to succeed with the party he registered, he just wants to boss himself around to get applause from occultic followers of the occult party called APC.


He should know that if Tinubu, INEC and NASS had allowed independent candidate we demanded for to be included in the revised electoral law which would have allowed Nigerians to contest for elective positions on their own names without running under a political party, Peter Obi would have contested on his own using his name Peter Obi which is bigger than any political party in Nigeria today

Obidient Movement alone is bigger than APC the failed ruling party talk more of Obidient plus Kwankwasiyya Movement, Dickson need to lay low and enjoy the success unless he is a Tinubu's mole wasting his own time

All movements are allowed to support Peter Obi. NDC unveil their own too.

As long as it will remove Tinubu from power, the disaster




THE EVILS OF TINUBU

$3bn looted on NNPC refineries revamp

fake Belarus tractors by his classmates

Looted billions on CNG buses and kits

20 million out of school children

8 million IDPs

Trillions looted in NNPC

3 years of below 30% budget implementation

More campaign buses than ambulances and public buses

21bn wasted on VP residence repair

Yahaya Bello and all political robbers are associates, legalizing corruption

Withheld our 16 months LGA allocation in Osun State

Corrupted the judiciary

Now 148 million poor Nigerians from 120 million

Highest payment of ransom by government and individuals from terrorists

Add yours

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If We call them AYATOLLAH party now, dem no go gree
Make candidate supporters and the party dey fight.
I never see this kind nonsense before.
What l my even saying
The candidate himself sef go dey participate in the unveiling of another presidential candidate.
Candidate sef no rate himself serious.

Seems like Nigeria is cú*sed.
Good things hardly take their stand buh if it something like APC or Dangote refinery matter now it'll be going smoothly

franchasng:
Dick abi Dickson is playing with fire 🔥


In fact it seems he is not prepared to succeed with the party he registered, he just wants to boss himself around to get applause from occultic followers of the occult party called APC.


He should know that if Tinubu, INEC and NASS had allowed independent candidate we demanded for to be included in the revised electoral law which would have allowed Nigerians to contest for elective positions on their own names without running under a political party, Peter Obi would have contested on his own using his name Peter Obi which is bigger than any political party in Nigeria today

Una too like noise.... mk una use that fire go open una own political party, let see if it will last pass 3 weeks.

Lolz, many people are going through a lot here.

What NDC or Obidients need to understand is that there are moles amongst them and must be wary of sabotaging the effort of the real supporters.

You think tilumbu will just go to framce and sleep? NO

A master strategist for reason.

chiiraq802:
Una too like noise.... mk una use that fire go open una own political party, let see if it will last pass 3 weeks.

Your jittery, failed and clannish Presidency didnt allowed that and they used their power of incumbency to stop Obi and associates from registering their own party in their fruitless effort to stop Peter Obi from being on the ballot, so what are you on about ym?

Mob of unruly nattering n!tw!ts like uncle Wole Soyinka called them

Your comment is so funny. Peter Obi is bigger than the people he's doing houseboy for ?

Look at this picture well and repeat your epistle with a straight face

franchasng:
Dick abi Dickson is playing with fire 🔥


In fact it seems he is not prepared to succeed with the party he registered, he just wants to boss himself around to get applause from occultic followers of the occult party called APC.


He should know that if Tinubu, INEC and NASS had allowed independent candidate we demanded for to be included in the revised electoral law which would have allowed Nigerians to contest for elective positions on their own names without running under a political party, Peter Obi would have contested on his own using his name Peter Obi which is bigger than any political party in Nigeria today

Obidient Movement alone is bigger than APC the failed ruling party talk more of Obidient plus Kwankwasiyya Movement, Dickson need to lay low and enjoy the success unless he is a Tinubu's mole wasting his own time

The party disagree to let them use the party for some political fraud..😂😂😂😂

Nothing like that . 5th columnist trying hard to sow discord

Dickson should tone down on his ego, there is an election to win.
This was the same foolishness LP Abure, Apapa and Arabambi were exhibiting, today they have been retired to political oblivion.

franchasng:
Your jittery, failed and clannish Presidency didnt allowed that and they used their power of incumbency to stop Obi and associates from registering their own party in their fruitless effort to stop Peter Obi from being on the ballot, so what are you on about ym?

I will soon form my own political party cus i kno in 2031, PitiObi the wailing traveler will look to contest against Northerners, by then dickson turn pursue all of una from NDC(Niger Delta Congress).

Dickson needs to reduce his pride he has to realise his ndc doesn't have the national spread without obi and kwankwaso support groups which have even been around before ndc officially became a recognised registered political party in nigeria. Tinubu also has his own different support groups like the city boys movement that operate independently from the apc so I don't understand why dickson is insisting on controlling both the Obidient Movement and the kwankwasiyya movement? That's the traits of a dictator and a supremacist.

clarocuzioo:
Dickson should tone down on his ego, there is an election to win.
This was the same foolishness LP Abure, Apapa and Arabambi were exhibiting, today they have been retired to political oblivion.

After January election, PitiObi too will retire to political oblivion.

Yeye people with no clear direction and objective,they think someone can just wake up and claim presidency in 6 months...NDC get problem today,instead of them to look for solution and rescue,na to jump to another party.if we trust them with Nigerian problems na to buy another country be that
People who buy tools to fix Nigeria,ordinary party they cant fix


It so surprising how person can carry people like cows from APGA to PDP to LP to ADC to NDC,they cant build one structure but they want to build a country

APC moles no dey waste time. Them don start work already in the NDC

solutionsnow:
All movements are allowed to support Peter Obi. NDC unveil their own too.

As long as it will remove Tinubu from power, the disaster




THE EVILS OF TINUBU

$3bn looted on NNPC refineries revamp

fake Belarus tractors by his classmates

Looted billions on CNG buses and kits

20 million out of school children

8 million IDPs

Trillions looted in NNPC

3 years of below 30% budget implementation

More campaign buses than ambulances and public buses

21bn wasted on VP residence repair

Yahaya Bello and all political robbers are associates, legalizing corruption

Withheld our 16 months LGA allocation in Osun State

Corrupted the judiciary

Now 148 million poor Nigerians from 120 million

Highest payment of ransom by government and individuals from terrorists

Add yours

1. Economic Reforms (the big one)
- *Removed fuel subsidy* on day 1 and *unified foreign exchange rates*
- Says it saved Nigeria ₦18.4bn _daily_ in subsidy costs and stopped over ₦8 trillion in forex losses
- Fiscal deficit cut from *5.4% to 3.0% of GDP*
- External reserves up from ∼$4bn net in 2023 to *∼$50bn in May 2026* — a 13-year high
- Tax revenue up: Federation revenue from ₦19.9tn (2023) to ₦28.3tn (2025)
- Inflation fell from 34.8% (Dec 2024) to 15.69% (April 2026) according to govt
- Upgraded by Fitch, Moody’s, and S&P (first S&P upgrade in 14 years)

2. Infrastructure
- *2,700km+ of roads* under construction/rehabilitation
- Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway (700km), Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano, East-West Road
- Rail modernisation ongoing

3. Oil, Gas & Power
- Fuel import cost fell from ₦2.3tn to under ₦90bn as local refining grew to ∼48m litres/day
- Oil production up to *1.64 million barrels/day*
- Electricity subsidy cut by over ₦1tn, 45% of market now on cost-reflective tariff

4. Social Programs
- *NELFUND student loan:* 1.5m+ students, ₦282bn disbursed
- Renewed Hope Housing: 10,000+ units across 14 states + FCT, 300,000+ jobs
- Thousands of primary health centres revitalised

It is so funny people want to intimidate us to win an election. Atiku Abubakar is the next President of Nigeria.

MartinCorridon:
Your comment is so funny. Peter Obi is bigger than the people he's doing houseboy for ?

Look at this picture well and repeat your epistle with a straight face

The person in that picture is not PO. Bro you are too big for this kind of misinformation

Fekumzi123:
1. Economic Reforms (the big one)
- *Removed fuel subsidy* on day 1 and *unified foreign exchange rates*
- Says it saved Nigeria ₦18.4bn _daily_ in subsidy costs and stopped over ₦8 trillion in forex losses
- Fiscal deficit cut from *5.4% to 3.0% of GDP*
- External reserves up from ∼$4bn net in 2023 to *∼$50bn in May 2026* — a 13-year high
- Tax revenue up: Federation revenue from ₦19.9tn (2023) to ₦28.3tn (2025)
- Inflation fell from 34.8% (Dec 2024) to 15.69% (April 2026) according to govt
- Upgraded by Fitch, Moody’s, and S&P (first S&P upgrade in 14 years)

2. Infrastructure
- *2,700km+ of roads* under construction/rehabilitation
- Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway (700km), Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano, East-West Road
- Rail modernisation ongoing

3. Oil, Gas & Power
- Fuel import cost fell from ₦2.3tn to under ₦90bn as local refining grew to ∼48m litres/day
- Oil production up to *1.64 million barrels/day*
- Electricity subsidy cut by over ₦1tn, 45% of market now on cost-reflective tariff

4. Social Programs
- *NELFUND student loan:* 1.5m+ students, ₦282bn disbursed
- Renewed Hope Housing: 10,000+ units across 14 states + FCT, 300,000+ jobs
- Thousands of primary health centres revitalised

Bros how did he reduce fiscal deficit when the govt expenditure is higher than other years? You are using ongoing new roads whereas the existing roads are dead.