{"id":8897,"date":"2025-09-26T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:02:18","slug":"georgia-confers-honorary-citizenship-on-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/09\/26\/georgia-confers-honorary-citizenship-on-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia confers honorary citizenship on Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-header\">\n<header class=\"td-post-title\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">The State of Georgia in the United States has conferred honorary citizenship on the past governor of Anambra state, Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p>Mr Obi disclosed this in a post on X on Friday, following his participation in the Black Congressional Week events in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_1_host\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"Business news subscription\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said the day began with the Congressional Black Caucus Week Reception at the U.S. Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, hosted by Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Senator Warnock encouraged him to speak on African democracy and development.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\">\n<div class=\"goog-rtopics\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"These are topics related to the article that might interest you\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Obi also met with Georgia Power, the state\u2019s largest independent power company, where he discussed energy generation and distribution with its chief executive officer, Kim Clark.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cSecond was an engagement hosted by Georgia Power, the largest independent power company in Georgia, which generates and distributes over 20,000 megawatts of electricity nationwide. My conversation with the company\u2019s CEO, Ms Kim Clark, was deeply insightful.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\">\n<div class=\"goog-rtopics\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"These are topics related to the article that might interest you\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He further participated in the One Voice Africa event, a forum that advocates for the dignity of Black immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>At the gathering, he urged participants to take a greater interest in promoting governance across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urged them to take a greater interest in promoting good governance in Africa, noting that Africa\u2019s potential is immeasurable if led by visionary and responsible leaders,\u201d Obi stated.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi described the conferment of honorary citizenship of Georgia as the highlight of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, the highlight of the day was the conferment of Honorary Citizenship of Georgia on me by the State of Georgia. For me, the day\u2019s events were about learning, serving, and remaining committed to building a new Nigeria that is truly possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"Nigerian history books\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Georgia in the United States has conferred honorary citizenship on the past governor of Anambra state, Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Mr Obi disclosed this in a post on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}