{"id":847279,"date":"2025-05-10T19:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/in-nigeria-politicians-pay-youths-n20000-to-insult-those-advocating-for-their-future-on-social-media-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:12:30","slug":"in-nigeria-politicians-pay-youths-n20000-to-insult-those-advocating-for-their-future-on-social-media-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/in-nigeria-politicians-pay-youths-n20000-to-insult-those-advocating-for-their-future-on-social-media-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn Nigeria, politicians pay youths N20,000 to insult those advocating for their future on social media\u201d \u2013 Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"main\" id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"the-post\">\n<div>\n<figure><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-21-780x470.png\" alt=\"\"In Nigeria, politicians pay youths N20,000 to insult those advocating for their future on social media\" - Peter Obi 1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" title=\"\"In Nigeria, politicians pay youths N20,000 to insult those advocating for their future on social media\" - Peter Obi 1\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<header>\n<nav id=\"breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/\"> Home<\/a><em>\/<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/news\/\">News<\/a><em>\/<\/em><span>\u201cIn Nigeria, politicians pay youths N20,000 to insult those advocating for their future on social media\u201d \u2013 Peter Obi<\/span><\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>Peter Obi, the Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has criticized the nature of politics in Nigeria, describing it as \u201ctransactional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that some politicians resort to paying youths to attack and insult individuals who advocate for a better future for the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019People pay them to cause confusion. As I am here now, go to social media. All those that are being paid N20, 000 or N40, 000 monthly are youths whom you are fighting for their lives because at over 60, I have just few years to go but we can get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"related-posts\">\n<p><h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Chinenye Ogbonna<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/04\/25\/in-nigeria-politicians-pay-youths-n20000-to-insult-those-advocating-for-their-future-on-social-media-peter-obi\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \/ News \/ \u201cIn Nigeria, politicians pay youths N20,000 to insult those advocating for their future on social media\u201d \u2013 Peter Obi Peter Obi, the Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has criticized the nature of politics in Nigeria, describing it as \u201ctransactional.\u201d He claimed that some politicians resort to paying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37249,27096],"tags":[18713,15956],"class_list":{"0":"post-847279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in","8":"category-nigeria","9":"tag-in","10":"tag-nigeria"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}