Oby Ezekwesili, former
vice-president of the World Bank, says it is a fact that she was a minister
under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but she served in the interest of the
people and for good governance.
The former minister, who holds
the PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for
Nigeria’s litany of woes, added that all she did is there for all to see.
“It is a matter of fact that I
was a minister under the PDP administration, but what you cannot contest is
that I was a minister that was driven by the noble objectives of serving the
people,” Ezekwesili told Channels TV.
“If you looked at the things I was
responsible for, whether it is the due process, that is the Bureau for Public
Procurement, it was for good governance. If you look at NEITI, the Nigeria
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, it was for good governance.
“If you looked at what we did in
the ministry of minerals, especially the new legislation that took away the
discretionary powers of the minister to just be giving licences, it was for
good governance.”
The 55-year-old, who is the most
prominent woman to run for the office of the president in Nigeria’s history,
said the response she has been getting in funding her campaign has been majorly
in terms of goodwill.
“The response is tentative, but
one thing we have seen is massive goodwill. There are different social networks
that exist already and those networks are all over the country,” Ezekwesili
said.
“Those kinds of networks say to
you, you can leverage our existence as a basis to do the things you would
normally have to find people and pay them money for.
“Partnership is a very important
resource for us. when you look at the power of goodwill; for example, there are
so many people that when they declared for office, they didn’t get the massive
goodwill that we have received both domestically and internationally”
Ezekwesili, who recently made the
final shortlist for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against corruption,
stated that “politics is not an investment” for her, adding that all she wants
to see is “good governance”.
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