Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has dismissed recent comments describing his supporters, popularly known as Obidients, as 'street urchins," saying his politics is about identifying with ordinary Nigerians, not the privileged elite.
Obi stated this in a response on Wednesday to remarks made by Kenneth Okonkwo, a former Labour Party chieftain, whose viral video accused him of "attracting classless street urchins" and failing to restrain his followers from spreading falsehoods.
"These are the kind of problems that Peter Obi has, attracting classless street urchins- all those rabies-infested dogs, they are ill-bred, very ill-mannered, ill-tempered street urchins. These are the kind of followers he's attracting now," Okonkwo said in the video.