Former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili, has accused the Federal Government of ‘orchestrating’ the attack on her for attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Federal Government had on Wednesday announced that it was pulling out of the forum to show its displeasure at the xenophobic attacks on foreigners especially Nigerians in South Africa.
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was supposed to be at the forum.
Mrs Ezekwesili subsequently came under attack on social media for attending the forum where she spoke about the attacks inter alia.
In several tweets on Saturday, she described the attack she faced as part of the government’s strategy to ‘bully’ her.
She said: “You’d be naive to think that the mob action the @NigeriaGov planned, incited and orchestrated against me was ‘because she went to @wef when the country boycotted it’. No. Just part of a cheap & frustrated strategy designed to bully, slander, denigrate me at every opportunity.
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“The most laughable of the cheap muck they ignorantly were throwing at me was ‘she could not ignore the Dollar @wef would pay her’. Imagine. What an irredeemable & corrupted bunch of illiterates who think everything is about money. I earn no Fees for speaking @wef. Sorry souls.
“I understand how frustrating it must be for a grossly incompetent government @NigeriaGov to have to cope with my determination to call out their serial pattern of Bad Leadership and Governance. I did on the SA saga & so to deflect accountability they decided to make me the topic.”
