{"id":82382,"date":"2026-02-02T05:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82382"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:12:58","slug":"peter-obi-politicians-are-nigerias-main-problem-not-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/02\/peter-obi-politicians-are-nigerias-main-problem-not-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi: Politicians Are Nigeria\u2019s Main Problem Not Poverty\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has blamed Nigeria\u2019s challenges on poor governance, insisting that politicians, not poverty are the country\u2019s main problem.<\/p>\n<p>Obi made the remarks on Sunday at a thanksgiving service marking Oyo State\u2019s 50th anniversary at St Peter\u2019s Cathedral, Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians to pray for political leaders to manage public resources responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is not a poor country, it is poorly governed,\u201d Obi said, calling on politicians to use public funds for the common good.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State governor also commended Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, for Ibadan\u2019s development, describing the city as historic and progressive.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed optimism about Oyo State\u2019s future and prayed for continued success for the governor and his administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has blamed Nigeria\u2019s challenges on poor governance, insisting that politicians, not poverty are the country\u2019s main problem. Obi made the remarks on Sunday at a thanksgiving service marking Oyo State\u2019s 50th anniversary at St Peter\u2019s Cathedral, Ibadan. He urged Nigerians to pray for political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82382","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\/82382","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82384,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382\/revisions\/82384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}