{"id":73464,"date":"2025-08-18T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73464"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:05:13","slug":"pvc-is-nigerias-strongest-weapon-for-change-peter-obi-tells-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/18\/pvc-is-nigerias-strongest-weapon-for-change-peter-obi-tells-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"PVC Is Nigeria\u2019s Strongest Weapon for Change, Peter Obi Tells Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to see voter registration and Permanent Voter Card (PVC), collection as a sacred duty to secure the nation\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an exclusive chat, Obi described the PVC as \u201cthe most potent tool for birthing a new Nigeria,\u201d stressing that it remains the voice of the voiceless and the weapon of the poor against injustice.<\/p>\n<p>He cautioned against vote-selling, describing politicians who buy votes as \u201ccriminals in disguise,\u201d bent on investing in corruption and bad governance.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, citizens who trade their votes for money or material gains mortgage access to quality education, healthcare, jobs, and a better future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour vote counts,\u201d Obi declared. \u201cIf it didn\u2019t, they wouldn\u2019t be desperately buying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra governor appealed to Nigerians to elect leaders with competence, character, capacity, and compassion, insisting that a new Nigeria is possible if citizens take responsibility for driving change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to see voter registration and Permanent Voter Card (PVC), collection as a sacred duty to secure the nation\u2019s future. Speaking in an exclusive chat, Obi described the PVC as \u201cthe most potent tool for birthing a new Nigeria,\u201d stressing that it remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73466,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464\/revisions\/73466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}