Former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has advised Nigeria citizens to rise up against members of the National Assembly to save the country from imminent collapse.
Oby Ezekwesili said this while reacting to the passing old national anthem bill by both the Senate and House of Representatives and subsequent assent by President Bola Tinubu.
Ezekwesili said it was regrettable that the National Assembly members preferred to change to colonial national anthem, instead of enacting laws that would address the economic poverty heaped on the citizens as a result of Tinubu’s economic policies.
The co-founder of Transparency International, said she would not recite the old national anthem in any event requiring her presence in the country. She further described the old national anthem as racist and lined with derogatory words against the Nigerian people.
The former Minister of Solid Mineral said, “So, it is a new National Anthem that is their priority? I frankly thought it was a joke and gave it no attention.”
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The Fixpolitics movement founder told Nigerians that, “Again, no one is coming to save us, Citizens of Nigeria.
We’re all we have. We all must someday decide to collectively save ourselves and this country from these overpaid, unethical, incompetent and incapable “Lawbreakers” in the National Assembly and their similarly characterized collaborators in the Executive and Judicial branches of Government across this Land.
“The Citizens of this country must understand this absolute Truth by now that the Political Class is the biggest curse on this country.”
Oby added that the political class have decided to isolate themselves from the realities of the citizens who are mainly youths. She added that the action of the National Assembly was not without the consent of the citizens.
“In a 21st Century Nigeria, the country’s political class found a colonial National Anthem that has pejorative words like “Native Land” and “Tribes” to be admirable enough to foist on our Citizens without their consent.
“It is inevitable that there will be an ideological War between the Political Class and the Citizens of Nigeria. It is only but a matter of “When?” With all the horrible indicators on the state of governance?” She added.
