The Obidient Movement has accused a founding father of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande of lying that the #EndSARS protest was orchestrated to stop President Bola Tinubu’s emergence as Nigeria’s president.
Akande had said the Obidient Movement was funded from America to stop Tinubu from emerging as President.
However, the National Coordinator of the Movement, Tanko Yunusa rejected Akande’s claims, stressing that his narrative was an insult on young Nigerians who lost their lives during the protest.
In a statement he signed, Yunusa charged Akande to stop engaging in propaganda.
The statement read, “Obidient Movement outrightly rejects the baseless and revisionist claim by former Governor Bisi Akande that our movement was behind the historic EndSARS protests, allegedly orchestrated to stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from becoming President.
“This false narrative is not only an insult to the memory of the young Nigerians who lost their lives in the fight against police brutality but also a desperate attempt to rewrite history and shift blame for the government’s failures.
“EndSARS was a decentralized, youth-led movement demanding an end to police brutality, extrajudicial killings, and systemic oppression in Nigeria. It was not about politics, nor was it about any single individual’s presidential ambition.
“Nigerians, especially young people, took to the streets in 2020 because they were tired of injustice, unchecked police violence, and a government that refused to listen to its people.
“To suggest that the Obidient Movement – a movement that emerged years later as a symbol of hope, accountability, and good governance – was responsible for #EndSARS is not only false but also a deliberate attempt to discredit our cause.
“We are a movement of patriotic Nigerians united by the desire for a better country, not agents of chaos as Akande and his allies would like to paint us.
“Rather than engaging in revisionist propaganda, we urge Akande and his associates to focus on addressing the real issues facing Nigerians today economic hardship, insecurity, unemployment, and bad governance.
“The people are suffering, and no amount of misinformation or historical distortion will change that reality.”
