POLITICIANS ARE OCCUPIED WITH SHARING POSTS IN THE NATION THEY WRECKED, SAYS EZEKWESILI

Obiageli Ezekwesili

Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, claims that the political elites are to blame for the country's instability because they are too preoccupied with sharing power to actually rule.

The political elite, according to Ezekwesili, only see governance as "a series of transactions" in a post she made on her verified Twitter account on Friday.

The former minister asserted that united individuals who take collective action are the only force capable of thwarting "wicked leadership."

She wrote, "Our decadent political class are busy sharing public offices in a country they have run aground; totally oblivious to the state of mind of the majority of their citizens.

Because they are the people the Bible speaks to in Ecclesiastics 10:16: Woe to you, O land, whose ruler was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning, these people deserve a great deal of sympathy.

"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure. Psalm 2:4-5."

"The erosion of the Nigerian State is the ultimate goal of a political class that sees Governance as "a series of transactions" and nothing more.

"The countervailing force against them in a Democracy are unified citizens who act collectively to reverse the "curse of wicked leadership".