Ex-Obi campaign members launch ‘Batified Obedients’, back Tinubu for 2027
A group of former members of the 2023 Presidential Campaign Council of Peter Obi has formally declared support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general election. The group, operating under the name…
Peter Obi's 2023 presidential run under the Labour Party drew a wave of young, largely social-media-driven supporters who branded themselves "Obidients," a movement credited with reshaping Nigeria's political conversation and delivering him a strong third-place finish, including wins in Lagos and the South-East. Since then, Obi has remained a vocal opposition figure, and reports of friction or defections within his support base tend to draw outsized attention given how central the Obidient movement was to his political brand.
Defections of this kind feed into the broader realignment ahead of 2027, as parties and camps jostle for structure and grassroots support well before formal campaigns begin. The coverage agrees on the core development — former Obi campaign figures forming a pro-Tinubu group — but details such as the size of the group, its formal structure, and how it intends to mobilise support for the president have not been independently verified beyond the groups' own announcement.