anyaekekehinde:


what is wrong with you self, after the TV show, she went to her twitter account to defend what she said on the show by saying "there is no empirical proof obasanjo is corrupt" on twitter.
it was not only about the TV show( infact what she did on TV is just diplomacy, which is expected), but going on twitter subsequently to state emphatically that there is no empirical evidence obj is corrupt.... comon

infact, there is no empirical evidence sey u self go skul, judging by your reaction

well in case you don't know, our newly elected president, a man of integrity, Gen Buhari (modern day saint and Nigeria's messiah) said "abacha never stole money"

funny enough, i have empirical evidence (in the words of oby ) to proof GMB said that.

some of you don't understand that this country is just about interest and not about the citizens

ChimaAdeoye:
Useless OBJ concubines.
So what happened to the $16 billion dollars meant for Independent power plants that suddenly disappeared? How did OBJ suddenly get almost N2 billion naira to build a library and even more funds to float his own private university? How did OBJ suddenly find billions of naira to transform Otta farms which was completely decrepit and bankrupt before he became President of Nigeria?

Yeye dey smell

cardinalmundez:
I like that you see or read between the lines, alot of us know the true including journalists but it in other to drive Web views and for publicity stunts you can't put it all plainly, there has to be something racy to make you wanna click or read this thread.
its just unfortunate that it is to the detriment of the truth and it gets to be true once it comes online, After all, how do you want to trace it's authenticity after 3 blogs carry the news unless someone directly involved comes out to refute the news which happens scarcely

Trailblazer1:
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has defended her claim that there is no empirical evidence that former president, Olusegun Obasanjo is corrupt.

It will be recalled that Ezekwesili during an interview on Al Jazeera, said that there was no evidence of corruption in the former President’s regime despite reports to the contrary.

“There was no way it could have been more corrupt that the government of Abacha. I am sorry,” she said speaking of Obasanjo’s regime, where she served as a Minister.

When asked about a Wikileaks report which quoted former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu as saying that everyone was a thief in Obasanjo’s government, Mrs Ezekwesili said:

“The next person you should invite to your show should be Nuhu Ribadu. Its not about rejecting his views. I don’t have counter-factory evidence on the basis to reject it”

When asked about her opinion on how corrupt Obasanjo was, she said:

“Is that supposed to be a question on the basis of some factual thing that you are putting before me? My sense of President Obasanjo was that he gave me the freedom to define the work that I did that public procurement was more transparent than it used to be.”

She has taken to her Twitter page to defend her stance, insisting there is no empirical evidence that Obasanjo is corrupt.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/ezekwesili-defends-stance-says-no-empirical-evidence-obasanjo-is-corrupt/

focus7:
When I see some people from south east attacks this woman, Soludo and people in their class but celebrates the likes of Ifeayin Uba, Peter Obi, TA Orji, Orji Kalu, Chris Uba, and other crooks, it gives me the sense that majority of Igbos don't have value for uprightness and credibility, no wonder the Igbos cannot produce leadership that will enjoy national acceptance, and this will account for the reason the Igbos is degenerating politically among other groups in Nigeria. This may be hard for the Igbos to accept but it is the truth, the south south has gain more political relevance than the south east and we can see it by the way the igbos are clamouring for alliance with south south so they could hide behind their political strength.

Fellonigerians:



Now she wants empirical evidence because she is involved... SMH!!!!!

When you throw stones, make sure you dont live in a glass house...

ozoigbondu:
Where is the empirical evidence that bokoharam took some girls away.Silly hypocrite defending her partner in adultery.

Just feel the adultrous act oozing from them

eazisky:


Was d 2 trillion jonathan used for campaign his money

ozoigbondu:
Where is the empirical evidence that bokoharam took some girls away.Silly hypocrite defending her lover.

Just feel the love oozing from them

AndreRose:
This woman must be kidding us. 0basanjo already promised her a ministerial post after may 29.

If I may ask ma'am,what happened to the Harliburton. scandal?
What happened to the semens scandal?
What happened to the 16 billion dollars the world bank gave to Obasanjo for electricity?
What happened to Ibeato's cement? Why did he allow it to get blocked at wharf around 2006? Is that not corruption?
This woman should please swerve. We all know the real deal.

oduastates:
Obasanjo is definitely corrupt when universal standards are used.
He did not directly dipped his hands in the treasury like jonathan ,Abacha,Babangida( the reason why he accumulated a $60 billion reserve)
Obasanjo's corruption was more of conflict of interest like giving patronage and collecting donations from people who want patronage from the government.
But based on what came before him and the record which Yaradua and jonathan have set ,
It is safe to say that obj is not corrupt.

eazisky:


Was d 2 trillion jonathan used for campaign his money

jonuel1:


You are so daft and I say it without an apology.

FitnessNigeria:


Provide the Empirical Evidence that the chibok girls were kidnapped

Demdem:


The Jonah-daft chief of defence staff publicly told the world that they know where the girls are and promised to rescue them.
What evidence could be more greater than that?

tuke:

So the over 500 girls/woman that were recently rescued from the strongholds of BH are semi-humans; Only the "alleged 219" chibok girls are humans worth celebrating when/if rescue.

Shut ur trap. i said no such thing

The defence chief had emperical evidence of abducted girls in sambisa and we are seeing result,chibok or not,

so far, they claimed none of the girls are chibok girls so i wonder what u are talking about. Besides, if not of their earlier incompetence, these children and women released wouldnt have suffered this long.

the end is almost here and we will see the motives behind some stupid hate campaigns and struggles.

What useless motive that Jonah-daft couldn't crack all these while.

"No empirical evidence of OBJ's corruption" - This woman is high on grammatical weeds.

Present them if u have.

ozoigbondu:
Where is the empirical evidence that bokoharam took some girls away.Silly hypocrite defending her lover.

Just feel the love oozing from them

eazisky:

Was d 2 trillion jonathan used for campaign his money

obailala:
There was no way it (OBJ's regime) could have been more corrupt that the government of Abacha. I am sorry,”

How does the statement above translate in the brains of some people to mean "OBJ's government was not corrupt"?

Nigeria as a nation is just filled with educated illiterates.

1. Oby never denied that OBJ's government was corrupt. She agreed that the regime was corrupt and that steps were taken to fight the corruption; even though the fight wasnt successful

2. Oby never said OBJ was not corrupt. She only tactically refused to answer the question and that was common sense at work.

Sometimes I wonder the kind of education some of these journalists have for them to come up with such interpretations. I also wonder the kind of schools some Nigerians went to.

It is one thing to say a person's government is corrupt and it is another thing to say the person himself is corrupt. Common sense and diplomacy in speech entails that you do not answer certain questions directly in public especially when no competent law court has convicted him of corruption. Oby may have accused GEJ of administrative incompetence, irresponsibility and running a massively corrupt government. But I am yet to see where she openly accuses the man GEJ himself of being corrupt. The lady has a degree in diplomacy and wouldn't have attained her present heights if she spoke carelessly on international TV.

Demdem:


The Jonah-daft chief of defence staff publicly told the world that they know where the girls are and promised to rescue them.
What evidence could be more greater than that?

darkjorse:
Watching Obasanjo make love to Oby is the worst thing that could happen to anyone

malonephill:
and why did she have to skip the question? If not being the hypocrisy who she is, just because she wasn't recognised by GEJ adminstration doesn't make her speww trash all about.

obailala:
Can you please just shut up!

There are several explanations on this thread why she (or any other person) should not answer such a trick question but some people will always choose to block their brains. If you agree you are a numbskull, you are free to keep asking why she refused to answer the question.