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Buhari Is Nigeria's Most Nepotistic, Partisan Leader Ever - Oby Ezekwesili

Posted by Odinaka on Mon 29th Oct, 2018 - tori.ng

Former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa, Oby Ezekwesili, who is gunning to replace President Buhari in Aso Rock in 2019 election, has lambasted the present federal government.

Oby Ezekwesili

Speaking while delivering a speech titled, "To those who say we cannot win: Unveiling the Oby Ezekwesili Roadmap to 2019" in Lagos, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obiageli Ezekwesili, accused the President Muhammadu Buhari administration of shielding corrupt individuals.

According to PREMIUM Times, she said: “There is no shadow of doubt: President Buhari is the most parochial, most nepotistic and most partisan president that Nigeria has ever seen.

“This president talks about fighting grand corruption. Please, please, give me a break! Can corruption fight corruption? Does he think we cannot see? A president that looks the other way while his friends and cronies suffocate and strangle our country?.”

The former Minister of Education called on Nigerians to support her candidacy saying she, “is one of the very small tribe of Nigerians who have served in government but who have no allegation of corruption against them. I don’t mean court case o. I mean allegation. Zero, none.”

The former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa has as a campaign cornerstone the lifting of over 80 millions Nigerians out of poverty into progress and prosperity.

Ezekwesili is a graduate of the University of Lagos and Harvard University. She is a former minister of Education, and then of and Solid Minerals.