Ebun Francis || Mallam Garba Shehu, the Senior special assistant to President Buhari on media and publicity on Thursday came down hard on Oby Ezekwesili, the Co- Convener of Bring back our girl’s campaign (BBOG) and former minister of Education over her critic of the President’s handling of the IPOB crisis in the South East by questioning her integrity as a human right activist and social crusader.
The Presidential spokesman in a statement on Thursday questioned why Mrs. Ezekwesili was silent on the illegal activities of the separatist Biafran group while questioning the legal activities of the army in the South East.
Shehu wrote, “While it is convenient for the civil society activist to condemn the military and the government of President Buhari, Mrs Ezekwesili didn’t find it appropriate, even once, to criticise the dangerous and violent propaganda being propagated by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Oby, as they call her, tweets on everything. Why was she silent on this one?”
He wondered why the BBOG activist, “retreated to the background or lost her voice while IPOB supporters were violently molesting, attacking and jeopardising the lives of indigenes and non-indigenes.
“This art of using a raincoat while taking a bath is nothing short of self-deceit.
“Seeking to make political capital out of a chaotic situation is highly unbecoming of her and of the reputation, she has worked hard to build over the years.”
Shehu continued, it is “ridiculous” to accuse the president of sending soldiers to the south-east because he hates the Igbo, saying the Buhari-led administration “respects all citizens and will ensure that they are safe and secure wherever they reside”.
“There is a deliberate sinister agenda by IPOB to provoke the soldiers into killing innocent people in retaliation so that Nnamdi Kanu would use the pictures of the victims for international propaganda by accusing the government of ethnic cleansing against the Igbos with the sole purpose of gaining sympathy.”