{"id":166264,"date":"2025-06-09T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:21:13","slug":"presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Mocks Peter Obi Over Power Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Presidency on Monday said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has finally agreed with some of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, said Obi agreed with the president\u2019s policy on fuel subsidy removal and the unification of foreign exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Arise Television, Obi said there was nothing wrong with the removal of fuel subsidy by Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, however, noted that Tinubu should have taken some steps before removing the subsidy on fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Bwala said Obi and his likes are just looking for ways to \u201cgrab power\u201d because they have no alternative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Bwala wrote: \u201cIs anybody watching @PeterObi on Arise TV? He agreed with our policy of removal of subsidy and unification of the foreign exchange; he claimed he would have done it better than us in an \u201corganized manner\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was asked what is the \u201corganized manner\u201d He played with words yet to arrive at agreeing with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody with rational mind knows these guys are just looking to grab power; but they don\u2019t have any alternative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe seem to have Very shallow knowledge of economics and governance<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember this is even an interview anchored by a member of his Obidient movement ohhh that\u2019s why you don\u2019t hear \u201cI put it to you\u201d no barking like a Rottweiler; Yet \u201cif it didn\u2019t Dey it didn\u2019t Dey.\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 Presidency on Monday said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has finally agreed with some of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s policies. Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, said Obi agreed with the president\u2019s policy on fuel subsidy removal and the unification of foreign exchange. In an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,222,158,945],"class_list":["post-166264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-presidency","tag-tinubu"],"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>Presidency Mocks Peter Obi Over Power Ambitions - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Presidency on Monday said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has finally agreed with some o ...\" \/>\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\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presidency Mocks Peter Obi Over Power Ambitions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presidency on Monday said the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has finally agreed with some o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-09T11:06:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-09T12:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749459143.041012.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Presidency Mocks Peter Obi Over Power Ambitions\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-09T11:06:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-09T12:21:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749459143.041012.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Presidency\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-mocks-peter-obi-over-power-ambitions\",\"name\":\"Presidency Mocks Peter Obi Over Power Ambitions - 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