Ezekwesili Advocates Politics Of Good Governance, Transparency, Strong Institutions

A former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has called on political leaders in Nigeria to practise politics that promote good governance through transparency, sound policies and strong institutions.
Ezekwesili, also a former Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in 2019, made the call on Wednesday while speaking at a webinar tagged: “Fix Politics”.
The Tide source reports that a former Minister of Information, Mr Frank Nweke Jnr; a former Presidential candidate of KOWA Party, Prof. Remi Sonaiya and Seun Onigbinde of Budgit, were among other speakers.
Ezekwesili said that the country needed a kind of politics that promotes good governance through transparency, sound policies and strong institutions.
She said that such politics should “satisfy the common good” in order to improve the wellbeing of citizens.
According to her, such politics is the type that encourages investment in public goods and services as well as for a strong private sector to drive the economy.
She said the idea of “Fix Politics” came out of the findings that indeed, politics was fundamental to the economic performance of any country.
Ezekwesili said structural problems required structural solutions, adding that there was need to mobilise people to collectively demand for a new Constitution as well as political and economic restructuring of Nigeria.
“Only the Nigerian citizens working together can compel the three arms of government, the executive, the legislature and judiciary to respond urgently and avert the imminent collapse of Nigeria into a failed state,” she said.