{"id":67756,"date":"2025-06-11T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67756"},"modified":"2025-06-11T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:46:08","slug":"nigerians-now-live-idps-in-their-own-country-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/11\/nigerians-now-live-idps-in-their-own-country-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Now Live IDPs in Their Own Country -Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Samuel Adeola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a “crime scene” where citizens now live like internally displaced persons (IDPs), in their own country.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the launch of a book titled “Obi: The Political Change Agent” by Ike Abonyi, Obi said the country is in a bad state due to failed leadership.<\/p>\n

He stressed that even though Nigeria is not at war, many Nigerians now live as refugees in Chad and Cameroon.<\/p>\n

Obi accused the government of neglecting the people while insecurity, poverty, and hardship continue to grow.<\/p>\n

He said some politicians are \u201cdancing while the ship is sinking,\u201d warning that if things collapse, both the rich and poor will suffer.<\/p>\n

The former Anambra governor blamed Nigeria\u2019s problems on leaders who serve their personal interests instead of the people\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n

He pointed to the growing number of out-of-school children and lack of basic services as signs of a broken economic system.<\/p>\n

Obi said corruption has weakened the naira and turned it into a tool for enriching a few people without real value.<\/p>\n

He argued that public funds must be managed with integrity and warned that stolen money distorts the economy.<\/p>\n

On subsidy removal, Obi said he would have first tackled corruption in the scheme before removing it.<\/p>\n

He added that countries like Ghana and Angola have more stable economies because of transparent governance.<\/p>\n

He also criticised past and present leaders for dismantling infrastructure like railways instead of improving them.<\/p>\n

He said the decline in manufacturing and agriculture is evident in the empty roads and broken rails.<\/p>\n

Obi called for political change through sacrifice and citizen participation. He urged Nigerians to vote for genuine leaders in future elections, especially lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Samuel Adeola\u00a0 Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a “crime scene” where citizens now live like internally displaced persons (IDPs), in their own country. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the launch of a book titled “Obi: The Political Change Agent” by Ike Abonyi, Obi said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67758,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756\/revisions\/67758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}