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RUGA: YOU'RE RULING A DIVIDED NATION, OBY EZEKWESILI TELLS BUHARI

Afnews Editor

Jul 14, 2019

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Former Minister of Education and Ex-Presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili has said Nigerians reaction to Ruga settlements revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari is ruling a divided country, adding that it's time for President to call for a ' frank and deep conversation'.

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Ezekwesili said this while delivering her lecture at 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series at Muson Center, Lagos.

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The former minister who was the Key Note Speaker at the event was speaking on a lecture titled: Rethinking Credible Elections, Accountable Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria.

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Speaking on how how RUGA sparked reactions in the country, Ezekwesili said, "Recently a vexing issue on RUGA took the country by storm and you could see the level of tardiness in which a government handle a matter so polarizing.

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"If President didn't learn anything from RUGA, then we should let him know that RUGA pointed that he's a President of highly divided country.

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"What does it says to us? That the real rethink of everything we have been discussing here today, on credible election.

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"President Muhammadu Buhari must now know that it's now time to invite all necessary parts of this country to a conversation that is deep, introspection, retrospection and radical rethink of how a democracy is constituted for the future," she added. (PMNEWS)

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