Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister
of education, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari over a recent statement
he made about the civil war.
On Tuesday, Buhari said Nigerian
soldiers were constrained to show a lot of restraint while fighting Biafrans.
The war broke out in 1967 after
eastern Nigeria declared “Republic of Biafra.” Many people lost their lives by
the time the war ended in 1970.
In a series of tweets on
Wednesday, Ezekwesili said the president is “void of emotional intelligence.”
She said the habit of Buhari to
play one segment of the people against the other is condemnable.
“A leader of a country who every
time he speaks, evokes division among his people only diminishes himself.
Leaders unite their people. A true leader does not pawn on his people’s
differences for his own benefit. #BasicLeadership,”
she tweeted.
“In a bid to offer unearned
praise to his former colleague, our .@NGRPresident @MBuhari disdains the
painful memory of millions of his citizens who lost millions of their families
in the #BiafraWar. What kind of unkindness is that? The President is void of
Emotional Intelligence!!
“Out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaks. Earlier president upset his citizens when his best
response to the deaths in Benue was to compare it with the scale of the ones in
Zamfara! What is that? Just one death of a citizen and the pain it leaves
should matter to him.
“This ingrained habit of
.@NGRPresident @MBuhari to play one segment of his people against the other or
one citizen against another is condemnable. Please just STOP IT. Be a leader
for all your people and not for only those who supply you with adulation. Be a
true leader.”
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