Obiageli Ezekwesili, Nigeria's former
Nigerian Minister of Education, and
former World Bank vice president for
Africa has told Aljazeera that the
Olusegun Obasanjo adminsitration in
which she served wasn't as corrupt as
the Sani Abacha regime.
Ezekwesili who is also the co-founder of
the #BringBackOurGirls campaign made
the comment while speaking to Al
Jazeera English.
Questioned by Head to Head host, Mehdi
Hasan about endemic corruption in
Nigeria, Oby said her country has a
“political class problem,” but refused to
condemn her former boss and mentor
President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ruled
between 1999 and 2007.
Under pressure by Hasan, she conceded
Obasanjo was “aware of the elements of
corruption, and it was his responsibility
to tackle” them, but categorically denied
he was corrupt himself. “Of course it [the
government] was [corrupt]! [But] There
was no way it could have been more
corrupt than the government of Abacha,”
she said, referring to the military
dictatorship of Sani Abacha that
preceded Obasanjo’s rule. Oby lamented
that the government she was part of
was not able to “succeed fully” in
tackling corruption, and defended her
own track record, saying she had not
been “window dressing” for a corrupt
regime and insisting - despite holding
two ministerial positions in the Nigerian
government, being an advisor to
presidents and holding high office at the
World Bank – that she was not a
politician.
Ezekwesili also told Aljazeera that
Nigerian armed forces have committed
human rights abuses in their fight
against the violent group Boko Haram in
the north of the country. “It clearly does
have instances where human rights
violations have happened,” she says.
Ezekwesili's full interview will be aired in
a new episode of Head to Head, come 1
May 2015 at 20.00 GMT on Al Jazeera
English.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/obasanjo-wasnt-as-corrupt-as-abacha-ezekwesili-tells-aljazeera.110984/

Dedicating this FTC to all Nigerians that are not ethnically, politically or religiously biased because those are our weakest points in Nationhood and on NL.

Well, We all know about Haliburton Scandal,
we all remember the 3rd Term saga etc.

I may agree with you Ma'am that Abacha govt was corrupt but I may not agree that his was more corrupt than Obj..I think, they are at equilibrium.

I think that if Abacha is still alive to this very day, he'd have been seen the way we see IBB, OBJ, Danjuma etc.

Fact: GMB is only former Military Head of State that is still perceived as incorruptible..

I pray that by 2019, he'll still be seen as such.

FirstNigerian:
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E for egg

Make God con help you make e no enter front page, your e don waste b dat

E don reach when that woman go wear camo go join the fight against bh

Ok

She should be sent to Sambissa to fight Shekau based on those sexy laws she rants endlessly about. . Where do you start to observe the law with a wild group that shot dead a woman in labour and abducted thousands of gals as sex slaves? A group that has killed almost every prisoner taken. Laws are meant for human beings not for desert hyenas. .

Human right laws for people who don't know the definition of human rights? KILL THEM ALL

Come come come, this obj girlfriend no de tire oo.

abeg who sabi gmb tell am say some girl dey find boyfriend make we fo rest

is this woman cursed or what??
with that kind of big mouth and this stupid thinking? only her? haba God.