{"id":231647,"date":"2026-04-28T03:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-political-education-of-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:26:54","slug":"nigeria-the-political-education-of-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-political-education-of-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The Political Education of Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><em>The former two-time governor may have drawn the right lessons from the 2023 election, but it is not entirely clear that he controls his destiny.\u00a0This is the third installment in the series on the 2027 Nigerian general election. The previous installment can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/articles\/two-gladiators-one-ambition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"119\">Caught in a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjdzxjx175yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moment of camaraderie<\/a> with President Bola Tinubu and former Ekiti state Governor Kayode Fayemi at the installation mass for Pope Leo XIV in Rome last May, former Anambra state Governor Peter Obi suddenly found&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604270856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former two-time governor may have drawn the right lessons from the 2023 election, but it is not entirely clear that he controls his destiny.\u00a0This is the third installment in the series on the 2027 Nigerian general election. The previous installment can be found here. Caught in a rare moment of camaraderie with President Bola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681276:b429ca6024011bc2ad18f05ff81b06c9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,1632,257,4687,393,22463,6066,6378,254],"class_list":["post-231647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obi","tag-peter","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681276:b429ca6024011bc2ad18f05ff81b06c9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}