Peter Obi in a black tunic against a grey studio ground, turned slightly, smiling
Peter Obi
Peter Obi speaking with a microphone in a college courtyard, students and staff pressed around him

Peter Gregory Obi

Peter
Obi

Trader. Govnor. Servant to di pipo.

Di man

E dey tok soft,
e no dey shake

Dem born am for Onitsha for 1961 inside trader family. Bifor e reach ten years, e don dey sell wetin e fit sell for school gate. Bifor e reach thirty-five, e don chair bank. And e rule Anambra for eight years without borrow money on top di state.

E dey waka wit small load and na figures e dey use argue. Di work na example, di CV clean, and you fit trace every single line: every date, every naira and every office wey dey dis site get link go im source, no be ordinary mouth. No be every person wey dey find dis job fit tok dis kind thing.

See am wit your own eye, or start from di questions wey pipo dey ask.

Peter Obi in a black tunic against a grey studio ground, turned slightly, smiling

Seven chapters

  1. A street packed with people, hands and phones raised, as a vehicle moves slowly through
    1961Roots
  2. Peter Obi walking down a wet street with officials under blue and yellow umbrellas
    1970sTrader
  3. Peter Obi speaking with open hands at a long white table of researchers taking notes
    1990sBanker
  4. Peter Obi standing with nuns, nurses and students for a group photograph outside a college building
    2006Govnor
  5. Peter Obi speaking into a handheld microphone with his other hand open, lit against a dark background
    2015Kontri
  6. Governor Alex Otti clasping hands with Peter Obi outside a building, aides and police behind them
    2022Movement
  7. Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi and Bishop Isaac Idahosa photographed from behind on a platform, an arm raised to a crowd of tens of thousands in red and white Kano caps
    2026Now
  1. 1,040primary schools wey e return give di missions for 2011, afta 18 secondary schools for 2009
  2. ₦6bnfor grants wey follow dem, wey dem pay ova fifteen months
  3. ₦8.7bnfrom ₦4.6bn: Anambra internally generated revenue, 2006 to 2013
  4. 8years as govnor, 17 March 2006 to 17 March 2014, through impeachment and one Supreme Court judgment
  5. 6,101,533votes for di 2023 presidential election: Lagos, di Federal Capital Territory and ten oda states
  6. ₦1.15bnfor gifts wey dem document give hospitals, nursing colleges, schools and universities since 2020

Always for road

Most weeks,
anoda state

All di photos
A small convoy of vehicles coming into a village in Benue State
Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi and Bishop Isaac Idahosa photographed from behind on a platform, an arm raised to a crowd of tens of thousands in red and white Kano caps
A student nurse in uniform taking a selfie with Peter Obi in a college courtyard
Peter Obi speaking into a microphone in a northern town, surrounded by men in caps and young women in hijabs
A street packed with people, hands and phones raised, as a vehicle moves slowly through
Peter Obi smiling into an Arise News microphone held towards him outdoors

Di campaign · 21 Ọgọst 2026

Production First

Onitsha

Giving

Save wetin you fit, use wetin you need, give di rest

Mission hospitals, nursing colleges, church schools, one university, and exam fees for prison pipo. Im giving dey go to institutions wey go still dey long afta di gift, and every naira of am dey for newspaper record.

Di ledger, and how dem take count am

Peter Obi handing a cheque to staff outside a health facility, surrounded by nurses in white

Latest

  1. 30 May 2026

    Candidate of di NDC

    Afta e comot from di ADC for May, dem ratify am unopposed as di NDC presidential candidate wit Rabiu Kwankwaso as running mate. Dem don fix di election for 16 January 2027.

  2. 2025

    E comot from di Labour Party

    E promise sey e go serve one term only if dem elect am and, afta small time inside di opposition coalition, e formally comot from di Labour Party for Nike Lake for Enugu, for di last day of di year.

  3. 25 February 2023

    6.1 million votes

    Party wey never win one state bifor carry Lagos, di Federal Capital Territory and ten more states. INEC put am third wit 6,101,533 votes.

A new Nigeria
is POssible.

-PO

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