{"id":157455,"date":"2025-04-02T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:41:04","slug":"people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"People with criminal records, forged certificates in charge of Nigeria \u2013 Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, Peter Obi, has said that people with criminal record, unverified and forged school certificates are in charge of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Obi stated this on Arise Television on Tuesday, insisting that there is no democracy in Nigeria, especially when there is no vibrant and independent judicial system.<\/p>\n<p>According to the LP chieftain, people, including someone at his level in Nigerian society, are being harassed on a daily basis because \u201cthere is no freedom of speech in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThere is no democracy in Nigeria today; Nigeria is not a democratic country. Let\u2019s stop telling ourselves lies. It is not a democratic country. So it\u2019s not for the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have a democracy without a functional and effective legislator, which you know we don\u2019t have today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have a democracy without, again, an independent judiciary that fights for the common person. I can go on and on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a democracy, it is clear there\u2019s guidelines even you set for people vying for election, like in the Nigerian case, you have to talk about people must be qualified, they must have primary school, secondary school, university, and most attain certain age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not happening today. People are with unverified, forged certificates all over the place, criminal records and everything, and they are in charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you cannot say that it is [democracy]. Yes, maybe we are striving to be a democratic country, but where we are today is not. Look at what happened in Rivers that we mentioned, can you call that democracy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, Peter Obi, has said that people with criminal record, unverified and forged school certificates are in charge of the country. Obi stated this on Arise Television on Tuesday, insisting that there is no democracy in Nigeria, especially when there is no vibrant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":157454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,222],"class_list":["post-157455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People with criminal records, forged certificates in charge of Nigeria \u2013 Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, Peter Obi, has said that people with criminal record, unverified ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People with criminal records, forged certificates in charge of Nigeria \u2013 Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, Peter Obi, has said that people with criminal record, unverified ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-02T10:09:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T14:41:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743580248.511166.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1144\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"People with criminal records, forged certificates in charge of Nigeria \u2013 Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-02T10:09:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T14:41:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":292,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743580248.511166.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-criminal-records-forged-certificates-in-charge-of-nigeria-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"People with criminal records, forged certificates in charge of Nigeria \u2013 Peter Obi - 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