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Former Minister of Education and Bring Back Our Girls activist, Obiageli Ezekwesili has announced that she will be running in the 2019 presidential elections. Ezekwesili made her intention known in a statement on Sunday where she said, “I want to run for, and win, the 2019 presidential election to serve and put the citizens first by mobilizing and taking decisive actions on a number of big ideas that will help all of us build an exceptional nation,”
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize by the Peace Research Institute Oslo PRIO. Oby Ezekwesili will be competing alongside notable leaders and organization like Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad & Tarana Burke for the World Food Programme; SOS Méditerranée, Doctors Without Borders & International Rescue Committee and Reporters Without Borders.
Former minister, Oby Ezekwesili and members of the Bring Back Our Girls group have been prevented by the police from seeing President Muhammadu Buhari. The group was also at the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Children’s Fund in Abuja.