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Lagos: Obdient Movement hits Yunusa Tanko on the leadership crisis

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Some basic leaders in the Lagos chapter of the Objective Movement have made their criticisms with Dr. Yunusa Tanko, the national coordinator, accusing him of supporting a list of dispute for the State Leadership Council.

The rejection occurred in a statement issued over the weekend by Obiasogu David and Hon. Bamidele Akpata, which represents the support groups, to the central organizing committee and other interested parties.

They rejected a circulating list for the State Coordination Council, saying that it was allegedly gathered without their contributions by a group of politicians near Tanko.

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Full statement below;

“The alleged list of the Coordination Council of the Obidant Movement for the State of Lagos, which now makes the rounds, hit us with the rude marvel. This is not because we had no knowledge and we were not actively involved in the process of renewal and structuring of the obidious movement in the state of Lagos, which has been operating for months.

“But the eventual decision and choice of leadership for movement in the State were totally abrupt and subnets, and the source of the list and some of the enlisted names are unknown to any active obider in the state.

“Give it an appropriate context, a set of political actors looking for a position, for attempts that raise doubts, fulfilled and elaborated a list, in which they shared positions with loyal, they qualified it as” State Coordinating Council “and imposed in the Obdient Movement in the State.

“Such movement slaps us, as well as all the active and active members of the obvious movement in the state, with an acute and annoying shock, especially taking into account its undercover and manipulative way.

“Our unequivocal position is that of total contempt and rejection of the alleged list. We resolve to ensure that the obider movement, for which we work to be pioneers and built in the state since March 2022, we must not derail from its central principles of integrity, truth, democracy, transparency and populism, the virtues our leader, Pedro Oppi, Espose.

“We must also reiterate that the movement in the State is not a political structure so that any politician hires or kidnaps self -granding or promoting its political agenda.

“We are a movement driven by people, based on sacrifice, resilience and the conviction of rescuing Nigeria and lakes of failed leadership decades. Therefore, it is imperative that the decisions and activities of the movement, especially a vital that form the leadership of the movement at any level, must be subject and cooperate the central principles of the movement.

“In view of this, we insist that the leadership of the movement must be constituted through a wide consultation and the popular consent of the active interested parties of the movement, a process that lacks political tricks and the interference of self -assessment politicians.

“Such leaders of the movement must embody the values ​​and qualities of leadership, be active members of the movement from the times of Foundation and, above all, they must be chosen by the active interested parties of the movement, especially the obvious support groups.

“We call on those who shared the alleged list that immediately removed it. The national leadership of the obider.

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