Ezekwesili To Buhari: Stop Being A Tribal Leader
A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop being a sectional leader and take the moral high ground.
Ezekwesili, who supported Buhari during the 2015 presidential election, urged the President to act as a true leader by showing love to all.
The former minister said this in a series of tweets on Twitter while reacting to the recent deployment of soldiers in the South-East codenamed Operation Python Dance 2.
She stated, “It is tragic that you, our President, Muhammadu Buhari, have deliberately or inadvertently alienated a segment of the people you lead. It is tragic.”
Ezekwesili said it was wrong of Buhari to punish an entire geopolitical zone because of the actions of a few.
She added, “The leader of a country cannot be friends only of those he/she likes. No. That is not leadership. The leader builds up groups. Not divide. You cannot lead only those that worship and swear by you. You are the leader. You must carry the burden even of those that detest you.
“It is the lowest form of churlishness that is unbecoming of a leader to send signals that you dislike anyone of the groups you lead. A leader is a winner. When a winner acts like a loser, things go wrong in their kingdom. Real leaders build a bond with all their people.
“Worst is when a leader makes enemies of most because he abhors the action of one or a few. That is not leadership! That is ethnic prejudice. A real leader does not suffer from the destructive disease of ethnic prejudice. It endangers his/her people and real leaders cannot bear such.”
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That is incredible, good talk, Dr. (Mrs) I wonder what those bunch of so called advisors are doing in the cabinet if they can’t come up with good advice to the President, nor suggest to him the right way issues are better handled. No wonder nepotism, prejudice & self centeredness has become a norm among Nigerian politicians since the president is worst a culprit.
You can imagine after I was kidnapped the kidnappers had the nerves to ask what region I was from before they decide upon the evil they were going to unleashed on me.
Very very unfortunate comment . So you didn’t find the voice to condemn the actions of IPOB despite their treasonable felony only to talk now. Well, Buhari’s government is not a joking one and will not allow the dismemberment of the country not matter what rabble rousers will say.