Break the Cycle of Repetition, Ezekwesili Urges Nigerians

Choosing between APC, PDP is a choice between death by poison or death by gunshot

Nseobong Okon-Ekong better than their aggressive mediocrity. And that is why I am running for president - to lead a people’s movement that will permanently terminate bad leadership, retire these incompetents and fight for every Nigerian.”

Speaking in Lagos on Monday at a World Press Conference themed, ‘To Those Who Say We Can Not Win’, the former Minister of Education and Vice President of the World Bank said that the current cry for, ‘Anyone But Buhari’ was reminiscent of a similar clamour to oust former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. Ezekwesili projected into the future, saying, “By that they mean that we should reinstate the failed People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar because they think Atiku is the only person that can defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. And in 2023, when Atiku and the PDP inevitably fail again, because a bad tree cannot bear good fruit, we will hear new chants of ‘Anyone But Atiku.’”

Arguing that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP, are not two parties, but one single party, the ‘APCPDP’, Ezekwesili made a strange insinuation, while introducing a new name into the Nigerian political vocabulary. The APCPDP, according to her, “is fielding one single candidate, and that candidate’s name is BuTiku. Buhari and Atiku are conjoined from head to toe as BuTiku. There is no lesser evil in BuTiku. BuTiku are members of the same party. These people are the same: Siamese Twins of Failure.”