Former Minister of Education and social critic, Oby Ezekwesili, has explained why she determined since 2007 to stop accepting ministerial appointments from successive administrations.
Ezekwesili made this revelation in a series of tweets on Monday, claiming that she had rejected ministerial appointments severally.
The former minister’s tweet is coming barely two weeks after her former protégé, Japheth Omojuwa, asserted that Ezekwesili expected to be appointed a minister by the new government of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015.
Many Buhari supporters seized the opportunity to blast Ezekwesili, accusing her of being a Buhari critic because the President failed to appoint her as a minister and not out of patriotism.
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But Ezekwesili, who is the Co-Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, said she found nothing fascinating in being a minister, adding that when she was appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the early 2000s, the appointment had put a strain on her family.
The former Vice-President, World Bank Africa Division tweeted, “I keep asking what is it about becoming a minister that these folks find so fascinating, considering the hardship my previous service to Nigeria including as a minister, cost my family and me?
‘Finally, I got it. Such an attack is by all those who see public office as a meal. After 2007, I made a decision to never again accept any ministerial appointment in this country. Facts are all around that every time I was offered to be a minister since 2007, I swiftly turned down the offer. I know it kills some of you to accept this but it is what it is.’
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK