{"id":244668,"date":"2026-09-17T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-throwback-what-i-met-in-govt-coffers-on-taking-over-from-peter-obi-obiano\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:30:07","slug":"nigeria-throwback-what-i-met-in-govt-coffers-on-taking-over-from-peter-obi-obiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-throwback-what-i-met-in-govt-coffers-on-taking-over-from-peter-obi-obiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Throwback &#8211; What I Met in Govt Coffers On Taking Over From Peter Obi &#8211; Obiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><em>Mr Obi had denied earlier claims by the Commissioner for Finance in the state, Izuchukwu Okafor, that Governor Charles Soludo&#8217;s administration was still repaying loans and other debts incurred by the NC candidate and other past governors of the state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">There have been intense exchanges between Governor Charles Soludo&#8217;s administration and the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, concerning the financial status of Anambra State when he exited office as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609170177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Mr Obi had denied earlier claims by the Commissioner for Finance in the state, Izuchukwu Okafor, that Governor Charles Soludo&#8217;s administration was still repaying loans and other debts incurred by the NC candidate and other past governors of the state. There have been intense exchanges between Governor Charles Soludo&#8217;s administration and the 2027 presidential candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12796,4357,11871,257,4687,393,22463,13399,6066,254,55459],"class_list":["post-244668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coffers","tag-govt","tag-met","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obi","tag-obiano","tag-peter","tag-throwback"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244668","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=244668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}