Oby Ezekwesili Supports Peaceful Protest Against Bad Governance in Nigeria

Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, has urged the Nigerian government to refrain from inciting fear in advance of the August 1st EnBadGovernance rally.

According to Ezekwesili, the demonstration is a legitimate means for Nigerians to voice their complaints about their circumstances. The former minister affirmed her support for the protest organizers in a post on X.

She wrote: “This unrelenting media propaganda all over the country by the @NigeriaGov and their supporters is just because their badly governed and suffering Citizens finally got distressed and discomfited enough to collectively raise their Voice and ask them to please #EndBadGovernance?

“Your Citizens are asking for Good Governance and instead of seeing this as an Opportunity, you are escalating Fear in the Land? Truly sad to see.

“At least one good thing from this massive propaganda machinery that has been unleashed is the BIG evidence that

*The Power of the People* is indeed greater than the *The People in Power*.

“We need no further proof.

“The #EndBadGovernanceProtest is a valid exercise of the right of the People to peacefully say to their Public “Leaders”, “Enough is Enough!”.

“I laud and stand with the Nigerian Citizens for the resilience shown in a season of severest economic hardship.

“May our country experience better days just because the People have discovered their Power to set their Public Leaders aright.”