Founder of 40 Million Ballots Movement, Kennedy Iyere has stressed the need to urgently restructure the Obidient movement into a unified political stronghold to strengthen its base in the country.

Speaking in Lagos at the weekend, Iyere disclosed plans by the group to hold its first post-election leadership conference for major conveners and coordinators of the Obidient Movement.

Iyere emphasised the need to maintain the Obidient movement momentum that was garnered during the presidential and governorship elections, saying it was time Nigerians take their destinies in their hands.

According to him, restructuring the movement would turn the political fortune of the country around and thereby having people of character and empathy in political offices.

He said: “One of the biggest political miracles of the current political dispensation was the emergence of the tsunami called the Obidient Movement. Today, Nigerian youths and women have through the Obidient Movement proven to the world that the power to restore political order and compelled good governance belongs to them.
“They shocked the ruling elites when they launched a ballot revolution which demystified the ruling class. They have been able to make it clear that elections in Nigeria will no longer be business as usual.

Iyere explained that the Obidient Movement Post-Election Revival Conference is designed to help restructure and unify the Obidient Movement into Nigeria’s single largest political alliance.

Iyere said the Obidient Movement will be re-energized during the proposed conference, to exist and function, as a strong pressure group and a democratic revolution, whose focus is to enforce active and adequate participation of youths and women in elections for the purpose of reshaping good political leadership.

He said the conference would provide a broad platform through which the Obidient Movement will be able to select and appoint credible leaders who will coordinate its activities across the 36 States of the federation and the federal capital territory.

“ Hosting the conference is the most critical political need of the moment. Delegates will attend the conference from across the six geopolitical zones and the diaspora community.”
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