Oby Ezekwesili engagement report

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• Feb 9, 201974x their median

  No greater Joy than being a person of Truth. It is the ultimate Ace for Peace. Whatever your traducers may do, they will come back someday and meet you where you were and always will be- calmly sitting with the Solid Rock known as The Truth which never falters. https://t.co/radxlfVQtu

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• Jun 1, 202665x their median

  Back on the road for a thank you visitation across the 6 Area Councils. Service to the people will not stop just because people were not given the opportunity to vote me in the primaries. My first stop was Kwali, and my message to all is simply. Let's focus on the Obi/Kwankwaso ticket!

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• Jul 10, 202652x their median

  Dear Alex @winexviv, Hearty congratulations to all outstanding Nigerian champions who recorded wins in Mathematics and Science as well as you and the entire Educare family at the 2026 Olympiad! This is exactly the kind of excellence Nigeria needs. The laurels achieved by our children are proofs that when we invest in our young minds, they rise to meet the world. You are building something that truly matters. Keep raising these champions; the nation is watching, and it is proud. With deep admiration, Oby🦾🥇🏆😃✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾

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• May 29, 202635x their median

  On the Record: NDC Primaries... A Better Abuja Is Inevitable | #AishaforSenate2031 As the dust settles on the NDC Primaries, I want to set the record straight: I did not quit, I did not drop out of the race. I stayed to the end. I also do not intend to litigate a process that was never truly allowed to happen, I share my truth because the people of Abuja deserve the truth. Why I Ran I came into politics from a deep conviction: that to drive the transformation we hope to see, it is not enough to complain from the outside. You must step into the ring with your convictions and fight to get into the positions where decisions are made with the weight of the law. I understood what I was getting into. I knew that the quality of our politics has not yet risen to the occasion, that values-based candidates do not easily emerge by merit in a system built to resist them. But I made a decision going in: I would not compromise my values. I would stand for what is right. I did not leave advocacy to go into politics. I took advocacy into politics. The Campaign We Built I ran a campaign I am truly proud of. Our ground game was on point. We had grassroots credibility, the kind you don't manufacture in a backroom. The SAY-Nation volunteer network was formidable, so formidable that the process had to be taken out of the open and resolved through a clandestine affirmation behind closed doors. Street by street, ward by ward, conversation by conversation, we built something real. To every volunteer who knocked on doors, every supporter who argued our case in market squares and motor parks, every young person who believed that this time could be different: I see you, and I am deeply grateful. You showed Abuja what a people-powered campaign looks like. The Process That Wasn't What was billed as a primary was, in truth, a predetermined outcome dressed in procedural formalities. The primaries were repeatedly postponed. Venues were changed at the last minute. Guidelines of the party were not followed. Delegate based process was introduced to be conducted at a central location instead of the direct primaries to be conducted at Local Government headquarters. When the moment came, the contest was not decided by delegates in the open; it was affirmed in a closed room, away from the people whose voices it was supposed to reflect. The party will indeed go on to release statements upon statements about the free and fair nature of the Abuja FCT primaries. They are entitled to their voice, but the facts that transpired when litigated by conscience and the guidelines of the electoral act do not reflect justice and fairness. Why I Didn't Escalate I ran to win. But when the process was subverted, I made a choice: I would not exhaust myself in a grievance process designed to wear people down. I chose instead to extract every lesson this experience had to offer. I now understand the architecture of the system in ways no textbook, no punditry, no amount of outside observation could ever teach. That knowledge is worth more than any petition I could have filed. I leave this process with something far more valuable than a ticket; I leave with clarity. It is important to note that this account reflects my experience in the Abuja FCT Senatorial race. It does not speak to what transpired in other states, nor do I claim to understand the specifics of those contests. Every state had its own dynamics, and I will not generalise from my experience. On the NDC For now, despite its shortcomings, the NDC remains the only party that has given the better Presidential candidate in the 2027 electoral cycle a platform to run. To everyone within the party working to make this possible, I am grateful. Transformation does not come from outside alone. It must also be fought for within. A Better Abuja Is Inevitable This is not the end. What we built, the network, the credibility, the grassroots trust, cannot be taken away in a backroom.

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• Aug 18, 202638x their median

  .@officialABAT President Tinubu, Terminate the Dodgy £746 Million Ports Deal, Now By Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili One hundred and fifty‑two days after President Bola Tinubu signed a £746 million ports financing deal with the United Kingdom at Windsor Castle, neither government has disclosed the terms of the agreement. I initially held back from commenting, prioritising Nigeria’s spiraling insecurity. But the persistent silence surrounding this deal and the pattern of opaque governance it reflects makes further waiting irresponsible. Nigeria’s public debt has exploded from ₦87 trillion in May 2023 to over ₦152 trillion today. Debt service now gulps more than 60 percent of government revenues, leaving crumbs for health, education, and the security Nigerians are dying for lack of. The administration’s annual borrowing rate has soared to nearly ₦50 trillion, that is, ten times that of its predecessors, fueled by a $21.45 billion external borrowing plan approved without a single substantive public hearing by the complicit, supine and captive @nassnigeria . Against this backdrop, the Tinubu government added a £746 million ports deal whose terms remain hidden. This is not a grant, nor aid. It is a sovereign debt obligation. It is a commercial loan arranged by Citibank London, guaranteed by UK Export Finance, and structured to benefit British exporters. At least £236 million is contractually reserved for British suppliers. British Steel alone secured a £70 million contract it described as one of the largest in its history. Nigeria borrowed the money that British companies will harvest the contracts and Nigerians will repay the debt. Yet neither interest rates nor repayment timelines have been officially published. Civil society organizations, including SEREC, BudgIT and opposition parties have demanded disclosure. None has received a substantive response. The loan agreement remains unpublished by the Ministry of Finance, NPA, UKEF, or any other official body. Three failures make this silence unacceptable. First, currency risk: a sterling loan benchmarked to a floating dollar rate, repayable in a Naira that has lost over 70 percent of its value since 2023, with no disclosed hedging framework. Second, procurement failure which is most vexing for me as one who led the public procurement reforms of this country: credible reporting identifies ITB Nigeria a company owned by Gilbert Chagoury who is publicly identified as a bosom friend of President Tinubu as the primary contractor without the Due Process of competitive tender, without publicly available evidence of the involvement of the Bureau for Public Procurement, and without any published evaluation criteria. Third, policy failure: the government ignored the proven alternative of private capital. The Lekki Deep Sea Port was built for $1.5 billion under a private BOT concession with zero sovereign debt and now handles 1.2 million Twenty‑foot Equivalent Units - TEUs. In simple language, the Lekki Port for which Nigeria did not take on any loans attracted private financing and is today successfully handling 1.2 million single 20‑foot shipping container annually. No analysis whatsoever has been offered by the Tinubu administration to justify why then Apapa and Tin Can, two of West Africa’s most commercially productive ports, could not follow the same model of private capital. These two ports do not need sovereign debt to be rehabilitated. What they need is a governance framework that attracts private capital on Nigeria's terms. …/1 Continue reading on next tweet.

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• Aug 26, 202633x their median

  The @pmnewsnigeria , I see that your desperation and those of the @officialABAT’s @NGRPresident’s @NigeriaGov and their officials like @fkeyamo as well as their ruling party @OfficialAPCNg officials like @Morka2Felix, for Oby Ezekwesili’s praise is definitely real. That’s why 24 hours later, you have failed to delete your manufactured quote-headline “Tinubu has achieved what many doubted in Nigeria’s economy” that you fraudulently attributed to me. You deliberately lied to the public by crafting and spreading a sentence I never uttered in any form. And you have persisted in keeping it up on all your social media handles to deceive the public. Your @pmnewsnigeria exemplifies those among Nigerian journalists and media houses that have willingly and shamelessly sold themselves and their profession to our country’s vile politicians who are destroying the country and people. I won’t even waste my time suing your rag-sheet @pmnewsnigeria because after all, like-media-like-judiciary in the hands of corrupt politicians who have infected both institutions to a metathesized state with their cancer of corruption. So, no need. But I know for sure that they will get their comeuppance. Trust me. When citizens are ready for Good Governance, we will all collectively arise and fight to reclaim our Land and all broken institutions from political hyaenas and their allies. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾

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• Jun 4, 202626x their median

  Final Part Understanding Public Frustration While Recognizing the Wrong Target: Pastor E.A. Adeboye Is Not Our Problem No, Pastor Adeboye is not our problem. He speaks. He spoke in the 1990s. He spoke in the early 2000s. He spoke in 2010. He spoke in 2020. He spoke in 2025. He has spoken across administrations, regardless of who governed or governs as President. The real question is: How many of us were listening? Did I hear you ask, “What did he say, and when?” I will share two of the most relevant examples- not only because they are factual, but because they embody the pathway forward for our beleaguered country, if we are finally ready to listen, act, and compel our government to lead the reforms Pastor Adeboye has long advocated. 1. November 2025 - A Direct Public Message to President Tinubu Contrary to the misinformation circulating online, Pastor Adeboye’s strong message was delivered in November 2025, during the Holy Ghost Service- not this week. He said: “You can only advise the Commander‑in‑Chief; you cannot command him. But I’ve tried. God is my witness.” “Tell our security chiefs to get rid of these terrorists within 90 days or resign.” He added: “They must eliminate the terrorists and their sponsors, no matter how influential.” These are not the words of a passive observer. These are the words of a citizen - an influential leader - demanding results, accountability, and consequences for failure. This is the same Pastor Adeboye some are attacking today. He issued one of the strongest public demands for accountability ever made by a Nigerian religious leader. But how many of us were listening? What did the President do with that message? And what did we do with it? 2. October 1, 2020 - A Public Call for Structural Reform At a national governance forum co‑organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute to mark Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary, Pastor Adeboye critiqued our dysfunctional governance structure: “It is ridiculous that a traditional ruler must inform a local government chairman before he travels.” He went further: “We all know that we must restructure. It is either we restructure or we break. You don’t have to be a prophet to know that. Now, we don’t want to break up - God forbid.” He proposed a “United States of Nigeria” - a governance model with a President and a Prime Minister, rooted in institutional effectiveness. These are not the words of a man indifferent to Nigeria’s future. Nigeria is structurally dysfunctional. As presently constituted, cycles of elections without correcting the underlying structure will only degrade - but God forbid- collapse this country. Now that we know - from just two of his many significant public statements that Pastor Adeboye has long been speaking truth to power on the hydra-headed crises that cripple our nation‑building process, the real question becomes: What are we all now going to do about it? “Shall these bones live?” Like Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones, we stand in a moment of national reckoning. The bones can live - but only if we act. It is time for Nigerians to let the image of our 2‑year‑old baby held captive by our common enemies galvanize us to collectively rescue that child and through her rescue our nation. The answer, my compatriots, is in our own hands. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili A Mother June 4, 2026 ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾

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• Aug 26, 202616x their median

  I frankly did not realize that so much celebration was going on among the officials of @NigeriaGov @OfficialAPCNg and their allies pushing a narrative that “Oby Ezekwesili has agreed that @officialABAT is doing wonderfully on the economy”. The @OfficialAPCNg spokesman @Morka2Felix was triumphantly bursting through the screens on @seunokin’s @channelstv Politics Today program distorting what I said during my interview with @KayodeAkintemi of @NewsCentralTV. Like, really? I am actually bemused by it all.😃 To keep public discourse accurate, I will over the next few days serialize the transcript of the interview which I thoroughly enjoyed. Here we go! Interviewer: It’s good to have you back here. So on that note, let’s begin with the state of the nation. More than three years into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. How would you assess the state of the nation? It’s gonna be a long thing because we’re discussing the state of the nation but if you were to summarize the state of the nation today in as few words as possible, where would you say we are? Dr. Ezekwesili: I think you would basically take the most important indicator that tells you where society is headed, and that is what’s the dignity or the lack of it of life? What’s the state of the dignity of life? Every other thing hangs on people being alive. And when people are not alive, then you can’t even talk about, you wouldn’t care about education or health or the economy. You need people to be alive. And what we have seen has been a degradation of that dignity of life quotient. Because when you look at the kind of serial abuse of life whether in terms of the killings, mass killings that have happened in the country between 2023 and 2026 or the amount of kidnaps especially of children, you would see that you have sufficient data on the basis of which to say that the already bad situation got worse over this period of 2023 to date. You take a typical indicator that is a catch‑all for what I’m saying about the state of insecurity that has declined the quotient of dignity of life. It would be the Global Terrorism Ranking. So Nigeria was at around 6th sixth most terrorised country. By the last ranking it had become the 4th fourth most terrorised country. Come on. In the world. That’s such an indicator that tells you where things are. And so when we then look at all the other aspects that have to do with quality of institutions, Nigeria degenerated. When you look at the state of the economy especially in terms of the cost of living index, especially for the poor, Nigeria deteriorated. When you look at what has happened with poverty, it’s about 145 million Nigerians now trapped in poverty, from a number that was about 133 million as of the time that the previous administration which is this government did tell us that they continue, that it is a continuation. Even if they didn’t tell us we do know that this particular, the actors in this administration were praising the previous administration and lauding the policies of that administration so, and it’s the same party. So it’s a knock‑on effect of basically the same kind of people thinking of economic management maybe slightly differently because what you can say about this particular one is that some market principles have entered into the equation. But the thing to ask is, while you can say macroeconomic stability is gradually becoming a thing, it is insufficient a thing to address the poverty that you see. And when you start looking at this kind of massive state of poverty, it means that quality of life has degraded especially for the ones who are poor and vulnerable. So in all, I am not one that would score, because I’m driven by evidence not by any other thing. So when we look at the indicators your summary is that we’ve been the worse for it than anything anyone can say. ……../1

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• Jun 1, 202614x their median

  It was a pleasure being in Abaji today for the thank you visit! The people of AbaJi treated me like a daughter and I remain one! My SAY-Nation team, as usual, were on hand! SAY-Nation #CitizensForABetterNigeria https://t.co/00wbaBGtay

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• Aug 11, 202612x their median

  Oby Ezekwesili has reaffirmed her support for Peter Obi ahead of 2027, saying Nigerians must reject resigning to the country’s decline. https://t.co/MTfHNQRywC https://t.co/4SMRipTPAc

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