Nigeria: Peter Obi's Pandora Papers

15 October 2021
opinion

Obi's non-disclosure of his foreign assets has weaponised his opponents.

It is like: Yes, he has been caught finally. That's what the Premium Times' story on the Pandora Papers, which reveals that a couple of Nigerian public officials and politicians have been fingered to have starched away parts of their wealth in tax havens, including the British Virgin Islands, sounds like. One of them is Peter Obi, the outspoken former governor of Anambra State. Since he left office in 2014, he has been a vocal critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, particularly its management of the economy, which has remained in distress since it took over in 2015.

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