Who Left Anambra Money, Who Left Anambra Debt? The Beef Nobody Asked For, Part 47

Okay, so this one is confusing, so let's break it down like we're explaining it to that one uncle who only understands things when you compare them to landed property. Peter Obi, the man Nigerians love to quote "container house economics" from, is now in a whole back-and-forth with the Anambra State Government about what exactly he left behind when he handed over power in 2014. Was it debt? Was it savings? Was it both, depending on who's holding the microphone that day?

Anambra government, through its commissioner, is saying oga left behind $123.77 million in loans, with about $92 million still outstanding, roughly ₦127 billion in today's money, tied to eight different external facilities. Obi is hearing this and responding as a man accused of owing his neighbor rent for a house he says he already sold: no, no, no, that's not debt I personally borrowed; that's multilateral project financing, category error, please read again.

He's even bringing out his old handover documents like report cards from secondary school, saying, look, I left $150 million in funds, external debt was only $45 million nine months after I left, don't rewrite my legacy. Anambra government is coming back with First Bank letters, ecological fund questions, and teachers' salary arrears, basically saying, "we have receipts too, oga."

And of course, because this is Nigeria, nothing stays purely financial for long. The Presidency has jumped in, reminding everybody that Obi once said he'd quit the 2027 race if these debt claims turned out true. So now half the country isn't even asking "who's right"; they're asking "when is Obi resigning," which, let's be honest, is the real headline everybody's fishing for.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are just watching two sides argue over a decade-old spreadsheet like it's a WhatsApp group chat fight about who paid for the last owambe. Somebody just publish the full audit already. We have popcorn, but even popcorn is getting tired.