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Best wishes for your birthday @ObyEzekwesili. I still recall that evening in June 1993 when you walked into my house in the Samaru campus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where I was teaching.
You demanded to know what we were doing to restore the stolen mandate of M.K.O. Abiola. You had said you got my contact from Shehu Yahaya, a mutual friend in the Lagos branch of Concerned Professionals.
What’s a bloody banker doing organising street protests all over the country I asked her? The moment the police tear-gassed and beat us up in Lagos Island for exercising our democratic right to protest, I realized I must struggle.
Without citizen action the military will turn our country into a Banana Republic, we shall not allow that you had insisted. Okay @obyezeks , sits down, let’s share notes, strategise and create traction in the struggle for democracy.
Twenty-two years later, thinking she had been softened by ministerial appointments & World Bank Vice Presidency, Police Commissioner Mbu told @@obyezeks he would not allow her continue daily sit outs at the Unity Fountain. He could not stop her & the movement #BringBackOurGirls.
Today, as always, @obyezeks continues the the struggle. Very happy birthday Oby Ezekwesili and wishing you very many happy and healthy returns. May God continue to bless and inspire you?
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