{"id":76837,"date":"2025-10-17T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76837"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:10:34","slug":"obi-camp-replies-wike-over-social-media-president-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/17\/obi-camp-replies-wike-over-social-media-president-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Camp Replies Wike Over \u2018Social Media President\u2019 Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The camp of Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has hit back at Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, after he mocked Obi as a \u201csocial media president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obi\u2019s aide and National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, described Wike\u2019s remarks as attention-seeking, saying the minister \u201cthrives on mentioning Peter Obi to stay relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will Wike sell his market if he doesn\u2019t mention Peter Obi?\u201d Tanko quipped. \u201cWe are currently holding a massive town hall meeting in Nnewi, Anambra State, with impressive turnout. Wike is the least of our worries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tanko defended Obi\u2019s recent comments on the poor state of public schools in the FCT, insisting that the former Anambra governor only spoke the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObi saw dilapidated schools and a clinic with only one nurse on duty. He merely pointed out areas needing urgent government attention. Wike should face governance, not criticism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wike had earlier accused Obi of \u201cplaying politics with national issues\u201d during a road commissioning in Mabushi, Abuja, alleging that Obi failed to deliver major projects as Anambra governor and instead saved money for profit.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing their records, Wike said: \u201cCheck what we\u2019ve achieved in two years in the FCT and compare it with his eight years in Anambra. You will see who truly loves this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further dismissed Obi as a \u201cfailed party leader,\u201d adding that he would \u201cremain a social media president, not the President of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The camp of Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has hit back at Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, after he mocked Obi as a \u201csocial media president.\u201d Obi\u2019s aide and National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, described Wike\u2019s remarks as attention-seeking, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76837","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\/76837","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=76837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76839,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76837\/revisions\/76839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}