{"id":72081,"date":"2025-08-05T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72081"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:33:06","slug":"obi-wants-to-serve-not-rule-adichie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/obi-wants-to-serve-not-rule-adichie\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Wants to Serve, Not Rule -Adichie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi is not driven by ego or desperation for power, but by a genuine desire to serve Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Amazing Africans programme on Monday, Adichie said Obi\u2019s motivation to lead comes from care for the country, not personal ambition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t need to be president. He wants to be because he cares about Nigeria. That\u2019s a very important distinction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She criticized those seeking power for self-interest, contrasting them with Obi, whom she described as humble, consistent, and service-oriented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi doesn\u2019t expect you to thank him for doing his job. To him, leadership is a responsibility, not a favour,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Adichie, who has known Obi for 15 years, said his values have remained unchanged. \u201cHe is one of the simplest men I have ever known,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said her support for Obi is rooted in her love for Nigeria and belief that he holds himself accountable to the people rather than seeking office for self-glorification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi is not driven by ego or desperation for power, but by a genuine desire to serve Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Amazing Africans programme on Monday, Adichie said Obi\u2019s motivation to lead comes from care for the country, not personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72081","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=72081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72083,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72081\/revisions\/72083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}