Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has said that President Bola Tinubu’s speech was like a page from his party manifesto.
Ezekwesili, who disclosed this through her X handle, stressed that Tinubu missed an opportunity to placate citizens with his speech.
She wrote, “@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 fails 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’s 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.
The former minister of Solid Minerals added, “It’s 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,” she added.
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