RUBISUN |ITL AMB

This is the Delta state Cooridnator of the Obidient Movement, Cmr Favour Emerure still receiving treatment after being attacked by thugs yet the govt is blaming NDC for the crises. We are all rallying around him.

Asaba, Delta State – November 9, 2026. Cc: @PoliceNG @OfficialDSSNG Supporters of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Obidient/OK Movement had given the police notice weeks in advance for a One Million Man March. The aim was straightforward: mobilise ordinary citizens for NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi and the party’s candidates across offices ahead of the 2027 elections. They planned to start near the Interbau Roundabout / Summit Road area and proceed along streets toward Asaba’s main town areas, singing, dancing, and carrying messages of a “new Nigeria.” Similar marches in 2022, when Obi was with the Labour Party, had passed largely without incident. Organisers expected the same this time. Police, however, later stated they had received intelligence of possible violence, called organisers to a security meeting, and advised against an open road procession, recommending instead a designated venue where security could be arranged. The organisers went ahead with the street march. What began as a singing, flag-waving procession of people from across Delta’s 25 local government areas did not stay peaceful. Roughly twenty to thirty minutes in, groups of men arrived (some on motorcycles, others on foot) armed with sticks, knives, machetes, cutlasses, and other weapons. They attacked participants from the rear and sides, slapping, beating, and stabbing, scattering the crowd and damaging campaign vehicles. Reports from NDC and Obidient sources describe Comrade Noah (Delta State Deputy Coordinator of the Obidient Movement) among those stabbed with daggers and taken to the Federal Medical Centre. Other named injured supporters included Favour Emerure (state coordinator), Akpovegho Noah, Ifeoma Enuagwuna, Clinton Ossai, Obiora Anaekwe, Emmanuel Ngene, and Ikechukwu Michael. Dozens of vehicles were vandalised or destroyed. One person died; police confirmed five injured. Multiple accounts from the organisers’ side state the deceased was among the attackers and had led a frontal charge with a knife, stabbing at least one person before being overwhelmed. Chief Uche Ndu-Okafor of the Oshimili South Keke Task Force/Revenue Collector has been reported for leading or organising the assailants. From the organisers’ perspective, the police presence was inadequate: despite prior notice, there was no clear assurance of protection for the procession, officers did not accompany the march in strength, and they failed to prevent or quickly stop the attackers once violence started. This, combined with the advice to abandon the street march entirely, is seen by NDC supporters as bias or at least a lack of even-handed professionalism that left peaceful participants exposed. Allegations of direct APC favouritism (including any reported statements by a Deputy Commissioner of Police Dcp George Efeizomor linking an APC senatorial candidate as “principal” or calling the rally offensive) have circulated in activist channels. The contrast with 2022 is frequently drawn by supporters: that year’s marches for Obi proceeded with far less disruption. In 2026, in an APC-governed state ahead of 2027, the same format met armed disruption, property damage, injuries, and a death. What is clear is that a well-planned mobilisation ended in bloodshed, vehicles in ruins. For Obidients and NDC, the episode is further evidence that exercising the right to campaign still carries the risk of violence when the ruling side’s interests are challenged.