“You Have No Moral Standing” — Ezekwesili Fires Strong Warning To Nigeria’s Top Leaders

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Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has cautioned President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other political office holders against releasing Children’s Day goodwill messages amid worsening insecurity and recurring abductions of schoolchildren across the country.

In a lengthy message shared on X on Wednesday, Ezekwesili accused Nigeria’s political leadership of neglecting children and lacking the moral authority to celebrate Children’s Day.

Addressing the President, Vice President, governors, members of the National Assembly and state lawmakers, the former minister alleged that they had “abandoned, betrayed, and condemned” Nigerian children to hardship and suffering.

She referenced several reported cases of school kidnappings across the country, including incidents involving students and teachers in Oyo, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna and Sokoto states.

Ezekwesili also recalled the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping in 2014, noting that several of the victims remain unaccounted for more than ten years later.

According to her, the repeated incidents of mass kidnappings and attacks on educational institutions reflect leadership failure and government’s inability to guarantee the safety of children.

She further alleged that thousands of students have been affected by school abductions in recent years, while insecurity has forced many schools to shut down operations.

The former minister maintained that Nigerian leaders should prioritise tackling insecurity and protecting children instead of issuing ceremonial Children’s Day statements.

“To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Vice President, the Governors of the 36 States, the Federal Executive Council, the Members of the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assembly, and the entire political class that has captured and destroyed the Nigeria State:

“Do not dare.

“Do not dare open your mouths on May 27 to wish Nigerian children a “Happy Children’s Day.” Do not dare release the recycled, ghost-written platitudes your media handlers have already drafted.

“Do not dare stand in front of cameras, surrounded by carefully arranged children in matching uniforms, to perform a tenderness you have never extended to the millions of Nigerian children you have abandoned, betrayed, and condemned to lives of suffering.

“You have no moral standing to wish anything to Nigerian children. None,” part of her message read.

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