The OK Movement, which backs the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) joint presidential ticket of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso, rejects a proposal to merge into the party and demands an apology from NDC officials. The dispute centers on the movement’s newly unveiled 59-member Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and subsequent remarks by NDC leadership about the council.
Multiple outlets report that the movement challenges comments attributed to NDC National Chairman Senator Moses Cleopas, who criticized the PCC and its relationship to the party. The OK Movement responds by calling for an immediate retraction and apology, and states it will not be intimidated or surrender its independence. Vanguard and Legit.ng describe the demand for an apology specifically tied to Cleopas’s comments about the PCC’s composition and role.
While all accounts agree on the core disagreement over the 59-member council and the call for an apology, one outlet also highlights the movement’s insistence that cooperating with the NDC and participating in the joint ticket does not erase its separate political identity. The reports frame this as an internal campaign-structure conflict rather than a change in the presidential ticket itself.
