In the beginning, before hashtags and convoys, before sirens cleared the highways and tinted glasses hid the faces of power, there was the village square.
And from that square, the Village Boys Movement (VBM) was born.
The Village Boys Movement is not a noise-making contraption of overnight billionaires. It is a quiet uprising of conscience. It was established by well-meaning village headmasters — men and women who grew up where character was currency and reputation was inheritance. They remember the old days: when stealing from the communal pot was not “smartness” but shame; when a thief was not rewarded with chieftaincy titles but paraded round the village with what he stole tied to his neck; when discipline was public, consequences were real, and deterrence protected the future.
Those headmasters have now jumped down from the fence.
They watched for too long as unexplainable wealth strutted across the land like a peacock in borrowed feathers. They watched as the so-called “City Boys Movement” celebrated wealth without enterprise — riches without factories, fortunes without farms, prosperity without productivity. A culture where sudden affluence mocks the sweat of farmers, traders, artisans and teachers across the federation.
And they said: Enough.
The Village Boys Movement was formed to counter that narrative — to restore dignity to hard work, to rebuild respect for integrity, and to provide an alternative support base for every Nigerian who believes that public office is for public good, not private accumulation.
It is on this moral foundation that the Village Boys Movement has endorsed H.E. Peter Obi — a man whose public record, to his supporters, reflects prudence, accountability and enterprise. To the village headmasters, he represents the familiar values of the old square: live within your means, build before you boast, and serve before you celebrate.
Ahead of the Nationwide 2 Million Man March for H.E. Peter Obi, the Village Boys Movement is setting up structured state platforms across all 36 states and the FCT. From the creeks to the savannah, from the hills to the commercial capitals, coordinators are emerging — not as political contractors, but as custodians of discipline and civic rebirth.
In each state, the Village Headmaster will soon call for Morning Assembly.
There will be no ringing of a brass bell, but there will be a call to conscience. Membership registers of the Village Boys Movement will be opened state by state. Names will be written not in ink alone, but in commitment to rebuild a culture where leadership is earned through service, not purchased through spectacle.
This is not merely a march being prepared.
It is a moral procession.
The village boys are stepping out of the square — not with whips of punishment, but with the memory of consequence; not with stones of anger, but with the stubborn belief that Nigeria can still be governed by men and women who fear shame more than they crave applause.
And when the 2 Million Man March finally unfolds across the federation, it will not just be bodies on the streets.
It will be the village returning to remind the city that character still matters.
