{
  "id": 17244656,
  "title": "2027: Paint Bucket of garri would drop to N650 if Obi is elected – Utomi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/2027-paint-bucket-of-garri-would-drop-to-n650-if-obi-is-elected-utomi",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T10:20:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/2027-paint-bucket-of-garri-would-drop-to-n650-if-obi-is-elected-utomi/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Political economist and chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Pat Utomi, says the party’s Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, plans to strengthen the naira to N500 against the dollar and reduce the prices of essential commodities, with a painter of garri crashing to N650 from N1,300 that it is currently being sold. Utomi said […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}