Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over his perceived hatred for the Igbo and described as tragic his alleged alienation of the South East zone.
This was contained in a series of tweets the minister sent on her Twitter Handle in response to the recent deployment of soldiers in the South-East codenamed Operation Python Dance 2 and the alleged human abuses being meted out on the people of the region by Nigerian Army. “It is tragic that you, our President, Muhammadu Buhari, have deliberately or inadvertently alienated a segment of the people you lead. It is tragic.
“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,” she said. Ezekwesili, a Bring Back Our Girls convener, was among those who supported Buhari during the 2015 presidential election.
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