Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Tuesday, launched a verbal attack on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, declaring that Nigeria had no government.
Ezekwesili, who spoke in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday, said that the abduction of the Katsina schoolboys showed that incompetent persons were holding the reins of governance in Nigeria.
The former minister, who is one of the Co-Conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls group which led the demonstrations for the rescue of over 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State, said that the government had woefully failed to secure the lives of Nigerians.
When asked whether the government had the capacity to tackle insecurity, Ezekwesili said, “Which government are you talking about? The one that has failed children and people? The one that has been in office while people have been abducted and slaughtered, where even our police and soldiers have been victims of terrorism?
“The government that has rebranded terrorism as banditry? Which government are you talking about? It is annoying that they consider themselves as a government. There is no government in my country right now. This country is not being governed.”
The former minister described as unfortunate the abduction of students on such a large scale, recalling that Leah Sharibu abducted from Dapchi had been held by the terrorist group for years.
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Ezekwesili said, “It is absolute incompetence and an uncaring indifferent ruling class that does not understand what it means to govern. So, it is a repetitive pattern of bad governance and I have
“I have come to a point where I am saying to my fellow citizens that if we accept this, it will never stop.”