{"id":170755,"date":"2025-07-22T18:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/gov-okpebholo-mocks-critics-of-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:51:26","slug":"gov-okpebholo-mocks-critics-of-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-mocks-critics-of-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"Gov Okpebholo Mocks Critics of Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo has claimed he does not know why Peter Obi\u2019s supporters are crying wolf.<\/p>\n<p>He said this in response to his critics, regarding his recent threat against the former governor and a 2027 presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Okpebholo, elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had recently threatened the former Anambra governor, saying Obi will be responsible for whatever happens to him if he enters Edo State without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, who received backslash for his comment, However, appeared defiant, insisting he only advised and not threatened Obi.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a large crowd of Edo people on Tuesday, the Governor mocked his critics, wondering if they are pained because he quoted Obi saying he does not have \u2018shishi\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust one word, and everybody was crying, I simply said, \u2018Don\u2019t come to Edo without telling me,&#8217;\u201d the governor, widely called an illiterate by his critics, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know which one is paining them. Is it because I said they don\u2019t have shishi? didn\u2019t they say they don\u2019t have shishi, so why are they crying?\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. Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo has claimed he does not know why Peter Obi\u2019s supporters are crying wolf. He said this in response to his critics, regarding his recent threat against the former governor and a 2027 presidential candidate. Okpebholo, elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had recently threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,12790,222],"class_list":["post-170755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-okpebholo","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>Gov Okpebholo Mocks Critics of Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo has claimed he does not know why Peter Obi\u2019s supporters are crying wolf. 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