{"id":76806,"date":"2025-10-16T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76806"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:16:55","slug":"wike-fires-back-at-peter-obi-over-fct-school-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/wike-fires-back-at-peter-obi-over-fct-school-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Fires Back at Peter Obi Over FCT School Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has slammed former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying he will \u201ccontinue to contest for President on social media, not in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wike spoke on Thursday during the inauguration of new roads in Mabushi, Abuja, reacting to Obi\u2019s criticism of the poor condition of LEA Primary School, Kapwa, which Obi had described as \u201ca national disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Obi of politicising everything, Wike said: \u201cIt is not everything you must play politics with. One of the social media presidential candidates, Mr. Peter Obi went to a local school and started blaming the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further accused Obi of failing to develop Anambra State as governor, claiming he achieved more in two years as FCT minister than Obi did in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t even manage your party; it\u2019s Nigeria of over 200 million people you want to manage? It\u2019s not available for people like you,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has slammed former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying he will \u201ccontinue to contest for President on social media, not in Nigeria.\u201d Wike spoke on Thursday during the inauguration of new roads in Mabushi, Abuja, reacting to Obi\u2019s criticism of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76808,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806\/revisions\/76808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}