The Obi-Kwankwaso Movement, popularly known as the OK Movement, has criticised the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) over its newly released National Campaign Council list for the 2027 elections, questioning the party’s preparedness and grassroots organisation.
In a statement, the movement’s Director-General, John Ughulu, argued that the NDC delayed setting up its campaign machinery until less than three months before the polls.
He asked what the party had been doing in the intervening period and demanded to know the location of its structure, strategy, and operational machinery needed for a serious national contest.
Ughulu claimed that the OK Movement had already built functional networks reaching state, local government, and ward levels, while others were only now organising.
He predicted that a large majority of those named on the NDC list would eventually turn to the movement for the mobilisation capacity they had not developed themselves.
He stressed that elections are not won by prominent names, titles, or press statements, but through sustained grassroots mobilisation, coordination, strategic planning, and structures that extend to every polling unit.
The movement, he said, recognised the need for such organisation early and did not wait until the campaign season intensified.
The NDC had announced its council with National Leader Senator Seriake Dickson as chairman and presidential candidate Peter Obi as co-chairman.
National Chairman Senator Cleopas Moses Zuwoghe was named vice-chairman, with vice-presidential candidate Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as co-vice-chairman.
Other roles went to figures including Babachir Lawal (National Advisory Council chairman), Ikenna Enekweizu (council secretary), and Ibrahim Abdulkarim (Director-General). Ughulu and the OK Movement’s state, local government, and ward coordinators were omitted.
The latest exchange continues a longer dispute. The OK Movement earlier formed its own 59-member presidential campaign council, a step the NDC leadership, including Dickson, rejected as inappropriate for a support group.
The movement has consistently maintained that it is an independent organisation with its own structures and will not surrender them to the party.
The disagreement highlights ongoing tensions over campaign organisation and coordination within the broader Obi-Kwankwaso support base ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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