₦airaland Forum

Epistasis:
Former Anambra State governor Peter Obi has claimed that he did not leave behind any debt, nor owe any contractor during his time and while he left office in 2014. But the claim is false.

Our fact check found that his claims have been found to be false and misleading.

In a widely circulated interview with Arise TV in June 2025, former Anambra State governor Peter Obi stated that he left office in March 2014 without owing any contractor, supplier, pensioner, or public servant. He added that he left behind funds sufficient to cover salaries for three months.

“The day I left office, I was not owing one contractor, one supplier who had executed his job… I was not owing gratuity. I was not owing pension. I left salary enough to pay salary for three months.” Obi said.

The statement was widely shared on social media platforms, including X and Facebook, and cited by commentators as proof of Obi’s fiscal prudence. But does this claim hold up to scrutiny?

Background:

Peter Obi served as governor of Anambra State from March 2006 to March 2014. He has consistently emphasized his record of fiscal responsibility, often referencing how he left savings in the state’s coffers and met all financial obligations.

His remarks in the Arise TV interview were intended to reinforce his image as a model of transparency and debt-free governance.
However, a fact check analysis reveals that this specific claim is misleading when compared to available financial records.

What Official Records Show
According to the Debt Figures from the Debt Management Office (DMO), the most authoritative data on subnational debt in Nigeria, Anambra State owed an External Debt of (as of December 31, 2013):
$30,323,574.40, while the state Domestic Debt (as of December 31, 2013) stood at, ₦3,025,797,046.67, this record shows Peter Obi was still in office as at the time frame.



The data above also reflect the debt position of Anambra State less than three months before Obi left office on March 17, 2014. The DMO’s reports are not self-declared by states, but are centrally verified, lending them significant credibility.
Archived source: DMO Subnational Debt Profile – 2013

DomPerignon:
He is not well.

And to make it worse he has no legacy nor heir to be concerned about as he goes about lying shamelessly.

I declared the idiot very early as a vapid pathological liar whom I aptly renamed as Pinnochio Obi

Pathetic.

MaziObinnaokija:
they should free the man

Chram:
So the best he could do was to block me?

Rexymania:
Did you reply him?
The guy was disappointed because you didn't reply him

QuinQ:
I'm a police officer

QuinQ:
Who called police?

Kalulu44:
Good evening or is it night to everyone here. I have been reading and following Nairaland for over 15yrs. I have registered many times and sometimes bcus of lost of phone and sometimes forgetting my passwords I couldn't comment or post in here. But the truth is I have been following Nairaland for long and I love the piece of information I get here.
But there's one thing that is paining me seriously and sometimes I wish there's a way to fish out the people doing this and give them thorough smacking and admonishing. I am talking about the tribalist on here.
And it's mainly from the South East and South West guys. A Nigerian commits a crime abroad and what they first come to check is name so that they know the tribe to lamblast. Any political post or whatever they turn it to tribes thing and starts insulting one another.
For your information guys, I am an Igbo guy with both parents from the East, Abia state precisely. But I was born and brought up in Lagos and can speak both languages fluently. It wounds my heart seeing and reading guys insults themselves bcus of tribes. You as a South Westerner, after insulting and exchanging dirty words with the Easterner here, you'll still go back and do business with an Easterner. You have Good friends and neighbours who are Easterners. Same applies with the Easterners to the Westerners.
Or in your businesses, or market place do you ask your customers if he or she is a westerner or easterner before you sell or do business with them.
At your workplace do you say oh this person is from so so and so place and therefore I can't work with them.
Like I said earlier, I am an Igbo guy but almost 70% of my friends and people I deal with are not Igbos and over half of that percent are Yorubas.
So which mind will I have to insult yorubas here knowing fully well I will still go back and meet most of them in my daily hustle and my friends.
Honestly if only you guys knows and understand that it is politicians that are tearing us apart with tribes the better for all of us!
I want to rest my case here, but want to let those guys/people indulging in such act to know that it's childish of them and that they're not different from white discriminating blacks overseas. QED!

Max24:
Except some people.

Ezmans:
next two years Julius berger I'll collect another 39 billion

Commentor:
Maybe the breweries.