Attack on Peter Obi, Oyegun in Edo premeditated – Obidient Movement

The Obidient Movement has described the onslaught connected erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Peter Obi, John Odigie-Oyegun, and different leaders of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, successful Benin City, Edo State, arsenic a premeditated, two-pronged assassination attempt.

It made the remark portion condemning the coordinated and convulsive onslaught connected ADC chieftains.

Some equipped thugs connected Tuesday, February 24, 2026, changeable astatine and attacked Obi, Oyegun, and different ADC chieftains successful Benin City, Edo State.

However, a connection signed by the National Coordinator of the movement, Yunusa Tanko, said the assemblage would not beryllium intimidated, adding that “we volition not backmost down.”

The connection reads: “What occurred was not a governmental scuffle. It was a premeditated, two-pronged assassination attempt. Armed assailants archetypal invaded the ADC secretariat connected Ogbelaka Street soon aft a enactment rally.

“They past trailed the convoy of ADC leaders to the backstage residence of Chief Odigie-Oyegun, wherever they opened sporadic gunfire connected vehicle...