Former presidential candidate’s spokesman, Reno Omokri, has called out the former minister of education under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili, in demonstration of the alleged hypocrisy that greeted the unveiling of the Nigerian national carrier, Nigeria Air.
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Recall that Freelanews reports how Omokri has insinuated that the uproar against the last minute unveiling of the national carrier was biased.
Omokri, citing the former minister’s alleged unpatriotic tweet against the project in 2018 as proof, claimed Ezekwesili has turned herself into the mouthpiece of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
“Be assured that these criticisms against Nigeria Air are not altruistic. They are organised by people who hate Nigeria. One example is @ObyEzeks
Ezekwesili, who has turned herself into a vuvuzela for the Indigenous People of Biafra, her name may as well be IPOby.
“On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, she tweeted as follows:
“I actually believed that at some point the FG would have “advised itself” & known that the so called “National Carrier project” IS A WASTE. Sadly not so as they are determined on what is CLEARLY A WRONG PRIORITY. It SHALL FAIL. For the sake of the country, it MUST FAIL. 👎🏾👎🏾
“So, how would you expect someone with a vested interest in the failure of Nigeria Air to be objective?
“This is the same Oby that danced naked in the streets when Deborah Samuel was burnt to death, but has remained silent till today after a pregnant Northerner from Adamawa, Harira Jubril, was killed by unknown gunmen in broad daylight, with her four underaged daughters, Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2.
“Harira and her children were killed in Anambra on May 22, 2022. Oby Ezekwesili has NEVER condemned or even acknowledged the killings. Deborah Samuel was killed on May 12, 2022. Oby Ezekwesili condemned it within hours.
“She has also not condemned the killing of US embassy personnel by Unknown Gunmen in her state and close to her local government on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Neither did she condemn the king of Ahmed Gulak in Imo on May 30, 2021.
“Her policy is if it happens outside the Southeast, scream at the top of your lungs. But if it happens in the Southeast, do your best to bury it.
“On Thursday, March 9, 2023, Oby Ezekwesili tweeted as follows:
“”The ethnic baiting currently going on in Lagos is terribly unfortunate.”
“However, on an evidentiary basis, there is more video and documented evidence of people of Igbo origin being physically beaten and otherwise harassed by their own kith and kin for daring to vote for either the Peoples Democratic Party or the All Progressives Congress during the February 25, 2023, Presidential and National Assembly elections. Yet, Oby Ezekwesili has not tweeted or squeaked about that until today.
“And these are the types of Nigerian by day, IPOB by night characters you are allowing to influence your views on Nigeria Air?” he said.
Ezekwesili, as at the time of filing this report, is yet to make any recent comment on the unveiling.
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
