{
  "id": 8009002,
  "title": "Stop deceiving Nigerians with sermons – Presidency blasts Peter Obi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/stop-deceiving-nigerians-with-sermons-presidency-blasts-peter-obi",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T10:51:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
    "slug": "daily-post-nigeria",
    "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/17/stop-deceiving-nigerians-with-sermons-presidency-blasts-peter-obi/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Presidency has once again criticized presidential candidate Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), urging him to cease deceiving Nigerians with sermons. Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this statement on Thursday via a post on the President's verified X account. Onanuga specifically targeted Obi's claims surrounding the Anambra State debt scandal, asserting that Governor Chukwuma Soludo's administration had been repaying debt borrowed by Obi's administration during his tenure from 2006 to 2014. Onanuga posited that the evidence presented clearly demonstrated Anambra's failure to be transformed despite $4.05 billion in spending and significant borrowing, thereby questioning Obi's ability to manage Nigeria's complex federation of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Special Adviser emphasized that Obi's eight-year tenure was an unequivocal failure, now being obscured by revisionism. He further criticized Obi for reportedly entering into a four-year single-term pact with his running mate, which directly contradicts the two-term, eight-year provision stipulated in the 1999 Constitution. Onanuga's statement serves as a strong rebuke against Obi's continued practice of deceiving the Nigerian populace with sanctimonious sermons.",
  "summary": "The Presidency has once again taken a swipe at the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate Peter Obi. In a post on his verified X handle on Thursday, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, urged Obi to stop deceiving Nigerians with sermons. This comes against the backdrop of the […] Stop deceiving Nigerians with sermons –…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Post Nigeria",
        "title": "Withdraw from 2027 election, you have been proved wrong – Presidency tells Peter Obi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/withdraw-from-2027-election-you-have-been-proved-wrong-presidency",
        "published": "2026-09-17T05:45:05.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}