Bring Back our Girls activist Oby Ezekwesili vows to disrupt ‘Nigeria’s politics of failure’

Editor | November 22, 2018 | World | No Comments

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Bring Back our Girls activist and former Nigerian minister Oby Ezekwesili has thrown her hat into the election ring for Nigeria’s upcoming 2019 elections and says her candidacy will “disrupt the politics of failure” in Africa’s most populous nation.

Ezekwesili in an interview with Christiane Amanpour said bad governance had become endemic in Nigeria and citizens no longer hold leaders accountable for corruption or corrupt acts.

“It [Nigerian politics] produced dismal results such that today Nigeria is the world’s capital of extreme poverty,” she said.