In the build up to the 2027 presidential election, supporters of former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, have launched an organization for grassroots mobilisation.
The organization tagged ‘Village Boys Movement’ was launched as a rival platform to counter the ‘City Boys Movement’ organized 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.
