Nigeria’s former Minister for Education and former World
Bank Vice-President, Obiageli Ezekwesili, in an interview on Aljazeera
said the government of Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration in which she
served did not “succeed fully” in tackling corruption.
Asked by the host of “Head to Head,”
a programme on Aljazeera English, Mehdi Hasan about the endemic
corruption in Nigeria, the #BringBackOurGirls frontline campaigner said
her Nigeria has a “political class problem” .
Ezekwesili who tried hard not to castigate her former boss admitted that Obasanjo was “aware of the elements of corruption, and it was his responsibility to tackle” . She denied that Obasanjo himself was corrupt.
“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.
She went on to defend her own track record, saying she had not been “window dressing” for a corrupt regime and insisting that she was not a politician.
Ezekwesili who celebrated her 52nd birthday yesterday has been tipped to head the agency – Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) in the new government of General Muhammadu Buhari.
Ezekwesili recently called on President Barack Obama to put in more effort in searching for the Chibok girls abducted by Islamist group Boko Haram.
Meanwhile,
former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has give reasons why the
Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration, in which he played a key role,
failed to address the power sector problems in Nigeria.
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