FORMER Minister of Education and
former World Bank Vice-President
Africa Division, Dr. Obiageli
Ezekwesili, has said the relationship
between Nigerian citizens and their
political elite is like that between an
‘abused wife’ and her husband. But in
what looks like a veiled call to action,
the former minister seems to
attribute Nigerians’ governance-
induced suffering to their docility.
“The relationship between citizens of
Nigeria and their political elites is like
the one between an abused wife and
her husband. A people that too
quickly forget and move on to the
next salacious exploits of their
political elite are their own nemesis!”
She said.
In separate tweets on her Twitter
handle, Mrs. Ezekwesili expressed her
disdain for how the present crop of
leaders run the Nigerian economy,
saying: “Not even grocery shops run
their affairs like this… such vagrant
public finance management is
contemptuous of citizens.
“All those fellows that deceitfully
reacted to my factual caution on the
frittered 5th oil boom should get
ready now. At least five years of high
oil prices holding firm- no major
productive investments, no increase
or reserves/saving.”
Still on what she considers a slipshod
economic management being run by
Nigeria, Ezekwesili tweeted: “A
structurally faulty public finance
system zealous for spending on
consumption rather than production
DEMANDS BOLD action!
“Now, oil prices are on a downward
slope. Imagine, we are asked to be
comforted that we merely have ‘cash
flow problem’. Ha!”
She also faulted what she described
as Nigeria’s ‘consumption spending’
at the expense of capital spending,
saying “We must BOLDLY discuss,
agree and begin to REDUCE
consumption spending (80 per cent)
of budget and INCREASE capital
spending (20 per cent).”
In what appears a subtle indictment
of government officials, Ezekwesili
added that the call for reduction in the
unusually high cost of governance in
Nigeria has never been supported by
any member of the National
Assembly because they are benefiting
from the status quo.
“The MUST HAVE debate on reducing
cost of governance suffers a lack of
champions among the ‘ruling elite’
because NASS is in too,” she tweeted.
But she is even angrier with the
politicians, whom she accused of
literally living on ‘public corruption
and distortion of politics’.
She tweeted: “A true national
dialogue should be between the
citizens and the consumption-loving
political elite in all capital parties, a
pseudo-private sector creating
nothing but making filthy profits from
the public corruption and distortion of
politics.”
On the N255 million armoured BMW
car scam in the aviation sector and
apparently faulting the policy that
made such mind-boggling purchase
scam possible, Ezekwesili recalled
that the administration under which
she served introduced monetisation
policy in the civil service.
“We introduced monetisation policy.
Ask why they canceled it. It will take
a RADICAL RE-BALANCE of public
spending for the budget to have any
positive effect on the lives of the
poor,” she wrote.
Generally, she blamed pervasive
indiscipline for why the country is
failing in all regards – especially its
economy.
“I am immensely irritated by
indiscipline. Cumulative indiscipline
is the root of that failure that now
stares us in the face as a people.
Sadly, Nigeria slides from spot 138 in
2013 to 147 in the newly released
2014 World Bank Doing Business
ranking,” she tweeted.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/25357-oby-ezekwesili-blasts-politicians-says-‘nigerian-masses-are-like-abused-wives’.html

Abused house wives, what about abused house husbands?

Oby Ezekwesili 2015.
Oby for president.

Madam Oby, I suspect APC has promised you something come 2015. We are watching

Oby,you follow abuse this wife too,when u were a minister,so shut up

The problem we have as Nigerians is that we do not like hearing the truth. The salaries and benefits political office holders and appointment holders are receiving are strangulating our economy. With increased crude oil production in America, Nigeria is in for very troubling times ( think of Shagari times).

If I were GEJ, I might not even want to be president in 2015 cos how would he go about fighting corruption to save money then when he has no moral standing as an anti-corruption crusader now?

Oby knows we are in trouble and is simply stating the obvious: We need a complete system overhaul.

After the Husband (FG) has mercilessly beat up and abused the Wife (Nigerian Masses) inside the house, She (the Nigerian citizens) will come to the public and be bragging to others how special and wonderful her husband is.

If as a citizen you state otherwise, you will be called a bad wife and other terrible names.

Yeah! She's saying the truth, after all there is an adage that says "if all my father's wives are thiefs then my mother is inclusive" cause she's my father's wife also. So Obi is right, she started the abuse and rape with public schools when she was Education minister. She and her cohorts kill public schools to further the interest of their pals with private schools, so y the noise? Why should an old pot be calling a kettle black?
Infact nigerian students need stone her each time they set their eyes on her.I will advice her to go hide somewhere. Please.

madam due process i wt u to replace oduagate