Dr. Oby Ezekwesili,
A former Minister of Education and presidential candidate of Allied
Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has revealed how
she would use her campaign strategies to defeat President Muhammadu
Buhari of the APC and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
Ezekwesili, who stated this at a press conference in Lagos, also
said both Buhari and Atiku were one candidate and not two because
“Buhari’s All Progressive Congress (APC) and Atiku’s Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) are Siamese twins of failure and destruction.”
She said: “There is no lesser evil in ‘BuTiku; BuTiku’ are
members of the same party. Attempting to choose between these two is
like asking one to choose between death by poison or death by gunshot.
God forbid. We cannot reject one oppressor and hand over to another
oppressor. We do not love bondage. We do not enjoy suffering; God in
heaven forbid.”
She added: “I just laugh when I hear some people say our
citizens’ movement will split opposition votes. But the PDP is not in
opposition to the APC. The candidate of the PDP has over the past 14
years gone from PDP to AC, AC to PDP, PDP to APC and now back to PDP.
These people are brothers and sisters of iniquity and impoverishment,
merchants of failure and disappointment.
“Don’t believe that 419! They are both part of a political
ruling class that has held us bound, manipulated and diminished us for
decades. Now they are auditioning to extend their streak of failure for
another four years? God really forbid!
“The real opponent that the Nigerian people have in 2019 is
this old political order that takes and takes and takes, and never
replenishes anything,” Ezekwesili said.
The former minister, who spoke extensively about her record, how
she had been hesitant to participate in politics and her eventual
decision to join the fray, insisted that she was the most prepared and
most ready for the presidential job.