Co-convener, Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group and former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was in power for 16 years, has failed Nigerians.
This is as she insisted that but for the failure of political leaders the country had no reason to be poor given the enormous human and natural resources it is endowed with.
Speaking during the official launch of the Red Card Movement in Abuja, Ezekwesili unless Nigerians wake up and stand against the failure of government the country would remain the same.
“We are here today to activate the office of the citizen which is the office that every Nigerian citizen occupies. A citizen doesn’t have to be in government in order to have a voice on how they are governed.
“The Red Card Movement is not a political party. We are citizens that have decided that if we work together, we can change the quality of leadership that go into all elective positions. Because we are not happy with the quality of leadership, we are determined to change that with our Red Cards, which is our PVCs.
“We want to mobilise citizens so that they will know that they have the power to determine the kind of government that will lead this country.”
Speaking further, she said: “When citizens don’t put their voice in how they are governed, then we are going to stay as a failed country forever. We decided to use our red card as a way of saying to people who have failed in governance to go and get out of the field of governance.”
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