{"id":43787,"date":"2021-05-18T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:18:11","slug":"ezekwesili-vows-to-sue-media-outfits-over-statements-on-chibok-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787","title":{"rendered":"Ezekwesili vows to sue media outfits over statements on Chibok Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has vowed to sue media houses and individuals who accused her of making \u2018malicious comments\u2019 regarding the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezekwesili, a co-founder of the movement, was reported to have said that the campaign to rescue the abducted female students of the Government Girls\u2019 Science Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State in 2014, was a \u201cproject with Fulani to tarnish\u201d the administration of then President Goodluck Jonathan in favour of Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> ahead of the 2015 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The so-called \u2018malicious comments\u201d had quoted the activist as saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was doing \u2018Bring Back Our Girls\u2019 Project with Hadiza Usman Bala in 2014. I didn\u2019t know she was sent to the project by Fulani leaders to tarnish the image of Goodluck Jonathan for Muhammadu Buhari to win an election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImmediately after the election, she left the project and was given appointment as MD Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Now I believe that \u2018Chibok Girls Kidnapping\u2019 was planned to tarnish Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s image for Muhammadu Buhari to win election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a statement by her spokesman, Ozioma Unabukoh on Tuesday made available to Ripples Nigeria, the two time minister said she \u201ccould never have made such a false statement about the campaign she led for the rescue of the abducted Chibok Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The statement added that those who posted the quote on social media were desperate to malign the #BBOG campaign as well as her advocacy for the Chibok Girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It read further: \u201cEzekwesili never said and can never make such egregiously false statement about the empathetic campaign she led for the rescue of the abducted ChibokGirls,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe has commenced legal actions for libel against media outlets and individuals who publish and disseminate this disgusting fake news that was fabricated by those who wickedly continue to deny the failure of the Federal Government in 2014 to swiftly respond and rescue the ChibokGirls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe dubious authors of the fake quote had, in their desperate effort to mislead the public, deviously ascribed a false quote to Ezekwesili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPropagating falsehood, they fictionally quoted Ezekwesili as saying that the global #BBOG campaign for the rescue of 219 abducted Chibok schoolgirls was a \u2018project with Fulani to tarnish\u2019 one administration for the benefit of another in the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe original author and other peddlers of the fake news have already been identified and reported to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp and other social media platforms, which are taking appropriate actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has vowed to sue media houses and individuals who accused her of making \u2018malicious comments\u2019 regarding the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Ezekwesili, a co-founder of the movement, was reported to have said that the campaign to rescue the abducted female students of the Government Girls\u2019 Science Secondary School in Chibok, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nEzekwesili vows to sue media outfits over statements on Chibok Girls » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Ezekwesili vows to sue media outfits over statements on Chibok Girls\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ezekwesili vows to sue media outfits over statements on Chibok Girls » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=43787#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ezekwesili vows to sue media outfits over statements on Chibok Girls"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has vowed to sue media houses and individuals who accused her of making \u2018malicious comments\u2019 regarding the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Ezekwesili, a co-founder of the movement, was reported to have said that the campaign to rescue the abducted female students of the Government Girls\u2019 Science Secondary School in Chibok,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43787"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}