{"id":10586,"date":"2026-02-20T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:47:25","slug":"2027-obidients-launches-village-boys-movement-to-counter-tinubus-city-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/2027-obidients-launches-village-boys-movement-to-counter-tinubus-city-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Obidients launches \u2018Village Boys Movement\u2019 to counter Tinubu\u2019s \u2018City Boys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>In the build-up to the 2027 presidential election, Obidient movement members have launched an organisation for grassroots mobilisation.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation tagged \u2018Village Boys Movement\u2019 was launched as a rival platform to counter the \u2018City Boys Movement\u2019 organised by President Bola Tinubu\u2019s son, Seyi Tinubu, for the President\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Convener of the Village Boys Movement, Maaz\u1ecb Tochukwu Ezeoke, who addressed supporters in Abuja on Thursday, named himself a \u2018Village Headmaster\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-_bound=\"1\" data-_defined=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNnonPiL6JIDFYypUAYd2zgegw\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"placeholder\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"container\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"curtain\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to him, the movement \u201crepresents a Nigeria that works before it earns and earns before it spends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, clarified that the initiative was \u201cnot hostility toward cities\u201d, stating that it is rather a \u201cmoral contrast\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is not geography but the source of wealth, the ethics of leadership, and the structure of accountability,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-bot\" class=\"left\">\n<div id=\"mvp-prev-next-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-post-wrap right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-next-cont left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-cont-out left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-cont-in\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-next-text left relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the build-up to the 2027 presidential election, Obidient movement members have launched an organisation for grassroots mobilisation. The organisation tagged \u2018Village Boys Movement\u2019 was launched as a rival platform to counter the \u2018City&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10588,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions\/10588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}