{"id":21,"date":"2018-03-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-03-25T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:47:35","slug":"melayes-recall-oby-ezekwesili-slams-saraki-for-talking-down-on-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Melaye\u2019s recall: Oby Ezekwesili slams Saraki for talking down on Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has lambasted Senate President Bukola Saraki for telling Nigerians that recalling Dino Melaye from the Senate was \u201ca waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">The former education minister replied the senator through a series of tweets where she said that it was irresponsible for him to speak down on the efforts of the citizens.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">She wrote, \u201creally? Digging in your pattern of \u201cpocketizing\u201d our Democratic Institution, right? I sorry for you &amp; your ilk.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">\u201cNo serious leader of any institution of Democracy in a serious country that respects its citizens speaks like you.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">Many of us have no dog in the Kogi recall fight. BUT, it is a DEMOCRATIC PROVISION. Don\u2019t talk down on Citizens.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">During a plenary on Tuesday, the Deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu had said the Senate had to be convinced that Melaye\u2019s constituents had done the right thing and that it was a waste of time to embark on the recall.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">\u201cThey (constituents) need to come back here and convince everyone of us that they have done the correct thing. Unless they do that, they cannot even give effect to it. So, why are we wasting our time? Let us move on and allow them to waste their time,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">In support of his deputy, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, also said, \u201cThere is no need for further comments. The Deputy Senate President has said it; 10 years is no joke in leadership. We have seen clearly the processes. Let the process speak for itself. I don\u2019t know why funds are being wasted, which should have gone on more important things. INEC is also at the middle of a test. Eventually, it must come back here for us to decide whether it is satisfactory or not.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has lambasted Senate President Bukola Saraki for telling Nigerians that recalling Dino Melaye from the Senate was \u201ca waste of time.\u201d The former &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}