Newscenter Media News Former Minister of Education,Oby Ezekwesili, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s speech for being terribly underwhelming and failing to address the concerns of Nigerians in the ongoing #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests.
Ezekwesili who analysed Tinubu’s Sunday speech in a statement, said the speech did not address the demands of the protesters, and did not inspire confidence in Nigerians.
In a post on her X handle on Sunday, 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.
She noted that the speech “reads like a page from your party manifesto”.
Addressing the President directly, Ezekwesili 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,” she said.
“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.”
She however, called on Tinubu to accept the responsibility that comes with his position rather than trade blames with some imaginary enemies.
“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 nationbuilding.
“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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