{"id":82268,"date":"2026-01-28T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82268"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:59:50","slug":"obi-urges-accountability-over-grid-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/28\/obi-urges-accountability-over-grid-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Urges Accountability Over Grid Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to hold President Bola Tinubu accountable over repeated national grid collapses and unfulfilled power sector promises.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on his verified X handle on Wednesday, Obi reacted to the latest grid failure, the second this year, noting that 2026 has barely begun.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled Tinubu\u2019s 2022 campaign pledge to deliver stable electricity within four years, warning that persistent outages contradict that promise.<\/p>\n<p>Obi said the grid reportedly collapsed about 12 times in 2025, describing the trend as unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised the President\u2019s ongoing foreign trip to Turkey, contrasting its over 120,000MW power generation with Nigeria\u2019s struggles despite its larger population.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State governor urged Tinubu to focus on pressing domestic challenges and warned Nigerians against normalising poor governance.<\/p>\n<p>He called for collective action to demand accountability, stressing that persistent power failures continue to worsen hardship and undermine national dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to hold President Bola Tinubu accountable over repeated national grid collapses and unfulfilled power sector promises. In a statement on his verified X handle on Wednesday, Obi reacted to the latest grid failure, the second this year, noting that 2026 has barely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268","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=82268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82270,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268\/revisions\/82270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}