In the build-up to the 2027 presidential election, Obidient movement members have launched an organisation for grassroots mobilisation.

The organisation tagged ‘Village Boys Movement’ was launched as a rival platform to counter the ‘City Boys Movement’ organised by President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, for the President’s re-election.

Convener of the Village Boys Movement, Maazị Tochukwu Ezeoke, who addressed supporters in Abuja on Thursday, named himself a ‘Village Headmaster’.

According to him, the movement “represents a Nigeria that works before it earns and earns before it spends”.

He, however, clarified that the initiative was “not hostility toward cities”, stating that it is rather a “moral contrast”.

“The issue is not geography but the source of wealth, the ethics of leadership, and the structure of accountability,” he added.