Former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday address to Nigerians concerning the ongoing nationwide protests against bad governance in the country.
The ex-minister said the speech was terribly underwhelming
to read.
Ezekwesili said Tinubu’s speech was a monumental missed
opportunity to placate citizens with sound answers and an outline of convincing
evidence-based actions that his government will take to address bad governance
in the country.
The government critic claimed the speech was written from a
mindset focused on “getting back at Tinubu’s imaginary enemies.
Recall that Tinubu addressed the nation on
Sunday concerning the ongoing nationwide protests.
The President in his speech ruled out the return of fuel
subsidy and asked organizers of the protest to withdraw from the street.
However, in a statement on her X handle on Sunday, the
former Minister said it is unfortunate to see Nigerian public “Leaders” talk
and behave like losers on matters of public governance.
She said: “@officialABAT , As one of millions of Nigerians
who were at church when you delivered your late-in-coming Speech to Citizens on
the #EndBadGovernancelnNigeria protests, let me loudly say it was terribly
underwhelming to read.
‘Your Speech reads like a page from your party manifesto and
terribly failed to connect to what our Citizens on the Streets are angry and
protesting about.
‘Your speech is quite a monumental missed opportunity to
placate citizens with sound answers and outline of convincing evidence-based
actions that you and your @NigeriaGov will immediately take to address the
priority #BadGovernance concerns.
“Your Speech was sadly again written out of a mindset that
is focused on “getting back at our enemies”. Imaginary enemies at that! No true
Leader has the luxury of having “enemies” among their Citizens. Not at all. A
Public Leader becomes the Leader of ALL with a mind that does not think of any
as their enemies.
“This is why it is ever unfortunate to see Nigerian public
“Leaders” talk and behave like Losers on matters of public governance where
they are expected to rally their ALL Citizens behind the common purpose of
nation building.
“It is nauseating to observe this recurrent innate
unwillingness of Nigerian public leaders to admit responsibility for the
demands of the same public leadership that they kill and maim citizens to
assume.
“@officialABAT, Citizens know when they are being badly
governed and from what one can see, Nigerians have now realized that they must
collectively speak up and take action otherwise their self-obsessed rulers (and
not leaders) will not pay them any heed at all.
“As we remember and pray for families of all our citizens
mauled down or maimed for demanding an End to Bad Governance, let me call on
you @officialABAT to immediately instruct the IG @PoliceNG and his men to “STOP
KILLING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS NOW!”
“Also fish out all law enforcement personnel that have
killed and maimed citizens and ensure they are sanctioned as a deterrence to
their colleagues.”
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