{"id":76257,"date":"2025-10-08T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76257"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:27:44","slug":"obi-rejects-class-discrimination-reaffirms-support-for-ordinary-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/obi-rejects-class-discrimination-reaffirms-support-for-ordinary-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Rejects Class Discrimination, Reaffirms Support for Ordinary Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has reaffirmed his commitment to equality and compassion, saying he would never look down on any Nigerian regardless of class or social status.<\/p>\n<p>Obi made the statement on Wednesday via X (formerly Twitter) in response to recent remarks describing some of his supporters as \u201cstreet urchins\u201d and \u201clow-class Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described such comments as insensitive, stressing that his politics is rooted in empathy and inclusion, not elitism. \u201cI have never, and will never, look down on anyone except to lift them up. We can only rise by lifting others,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra governor said his political vision focuses on creating opportunities for the common man through education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue leadership is not about ridiculing the weak but about supporting and empowering them,\u201d Obi added, reaffirming his resolve to promote dignity, fairness, and social justice for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has reaffirmed his commitment to equality and compassion, saying he would never look down on any Nigerian regardless of class or social status. Obi made the statement on Wednesday via X (formerly Twitter) in response to recent remarks describing some of his supporters as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76257","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=76257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76259,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76257\/revisions\/76259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}