A former Minister of Education,
Oby Ezekwesili, says she determined since 2007 that she would never accept a
ministerial appointment again.
Ezekwesili said this in a series
of tweets on Monday, adding that she had rejected past ministerial
appointments.
The former minister’s tweet comes
barely two weeks after her former protégé, Japheth Omojuwa, said in an open
letter that Ezekwesili was expected to be appointed a minister by the new
regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
Many Buhari supporters seized the
opportunity to lambast Ezekwesili, accusing her of being a Buhari critic
because the President failed to appoint her as a minister.
But Ezekwesili, who is the
Co-Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, said she found nothing
fascinating in being a minister, adding that when she was appointed by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo in the early 2000s, the appointment had put a
strain on her family.
The former Vice-President, World
Bank Africa Division tweeted, “I keep asking what is it about becoming a
minister that these folks find so fascinating, considering the hardship my
previous service to Nigeria including as a minister, cost my family and me?
“Finally, I got it. Such an
attack is by all those who see public office as a meal. After 2007, I made a
decision to never again accept any ministerial appointment in this country.
Facts are all around that every time I was offered to be a minister since 2007,
I swiftly turned down the offer. I know it kills some of you to accept this but
it is what it is.”
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