{"id":177599,"date":"2025-09-04T07:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:48:05","slug":"tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny","title":{"rendered":"Tanko Challenges Aspirants to Match Peter Obi&#8217;s Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Coordinator for Obidients Movement, Yunusa Tanko, has challenged every presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2027 elections to present themselves for scrutiny as Peter Obi has done.<\/p>\n<p>Tanko gave the challenge on Wednesday, while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>He said propagandists have looked in every nook and cranny to find any negative thing about Peter Obi but could not find any.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the narrative of individuals being attacked, Peter Obi is one of the most highly attacked individuals in Nigerian politics as of today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd not because, because he is Peter Obi. No, it\u2019s because of what he\u2019s bringing to the table. He\u2019s changing the narrative from an old order to a new order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to challenge any Nigerian candidate that can present himself for scrutiny of this nature. None of them can face the scrutiny of the security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why up till now, they\u2019ve looked everywhere to find any negative thing about him. They couldn\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this man, Peter Obi, hates incompetency, and this is what we are not used to in Nigeria. I\u2019m giving you this story so that you can understand the level of lies and propaganda that will not stick on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso I just wanted to say my condolences to Nigerians, not because they are dead, but at this rate at which the level of taxation is taking negative effect on their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd these are the people that this government has sworn by the Quran, in this case, to protect their lives and make their life comfortable,\u201d he said.<\/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 National Coordinator for Obidients Movement, Yunusa Tanko, has challenged every presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2027 elections to present themselves for scrutiny as Peter Obi has done. Tanko gave the challenge on Wednesday, while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television. He said propagandists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13554,254,222,755],"class_list":["post-177599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-13554","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-tanko"],"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>Tanko Challenges Aspirants to Match Peter Obi&#039;s Scrutiny - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Coordinator for Obidients Movement, Yunusa Tanko, has challenged every presidential aspirant in the forthco ...\" \/>\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\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tanko Challenges Aspirants to Match Peter Obi&#039;s Scrutiny\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Coordinator for Obidients Movement, Yunusa Tanko, has challenged every presidential aspirant in the forthco ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T06:43:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T07:48:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756959640.5143.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tanko Challenges Aspirants to Match Peter Obi&#8217;s Scrutiny\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-04T06:43:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-04T07:48:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756959640.5143.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Tanko\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tanko-challenges-aspirants-to-match-peter-obis-scrutiny\",\"name\":\"Tanko Challenges Aspirants to Match Peter Obi's Scrutiny - 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