{"id":76334,"date":"2025-10-09T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76334"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:56:30","slug":"obi-disowns-online-endorsements-using-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/obi-disowns-online-endorsements-using-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Disowns Online Endorsements Using His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has disowned online advertisements and endorsements using his name and image without authorization, describing them as fraudulent and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his verified X account on Thursday, Obi said he has never permitted any individual or business to use his identity for commercial purposes, urging Nigerians to disregard such claims.<\/p>\n<p>He cautioned the public to rely only on verified channels for information about his activities, noting that impersonators continue to exploit his image to deceive unsuspecting people.<\/p>\n<p>The warning follows recent online scams falsely linking Obi to a promotional campaign for a platform called AfriQuantumX, which fact-checkers have since debunked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has disowned online advertisements and endorsements using his name and image without authorization, describing them as fraudulent and misleading. In a post on his verified X account on Thursday, Obi said he has never permitted any individual or business to use his identity for commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76334","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\/76334","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=76334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76336,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76334\/revisions\/76336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}