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The Director of News at Arise Television, Sumner Sambo, has said the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, is unable to provide the kind of leadership the Obidient Movement currently requires.

Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Wednesday, Sambo urged Obi to build a stronger structure for the movement beyond his personal political aspirations, arguing that the group has grown larger than the individual leading it.

He compared the Obidient Movement to the Zikist Movement, the support base of Nnamdi Azikiwe during the 1940s and 1950s, adding that the movement would continue to exist even if Obi fails to become president in the 2027 election.

“The Obidient movement is greater than Peter Obi himself. If I were Peter Obi, I would look for a way to structure it above my ambition.

“The major problem here is the organizational issues we have in politics, and I can tell you it’s a very huge challenge.

“But the thing is that there’s so much fire in this group of young Nigerians, and they need proper political organization.

“And I’m sorry to say, Peter Obi is not someone who can give them that leadership, because what they are seeking is actually greater than Obi himself.

“It is that bitterness that made someone like the former Deputy Campaign Manager for the Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign, Comrade Isaac Balami, to leave.

“He had to leave because, from what he said, you see the pain that from the funding of the Obidient movement to the campaign strategies, there were some loopholes that were not filled.

“And after the 2023 elections, Obi did not call for a post-election analysis meeting to unite this group and keep them at hand,” Sambo said.

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