Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, has accused the speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, and members of the National Assembly of conspiring with President Bola Tinubu to pass the old national anthem “Nigeria We Hail Thee” into law, News About Nigeria reports.
According to her, the Speaker and his colleagues in the National Assembly went against the constitutional process by reverting to the old national anthem.
Speaking in a post shared on her X account, the former Minister challenged the speaker to prepare to prosecute her when the bill is passed, noting that she would not sing the old national anthem but would always stick with ‘Arise O’ Compatriot.’
Her statement shared on X reads, “I am certain that the Speaker of the @HouseNGR @Speaker_Abbas @nassnigeria knows this for a fact. Surely, he must know that the so-called #CounterSubversionBill—alleged to be in its second reading—which he introduced, is a silly flight of fancy that further reveals how unserious and irrelevant the lawmakers are to the Nigerian condition. I, for example, have kept my public statement and only stand and sing the REAL Nigerian National Anthem (Arise O Compatriots), never the Colonial and ‘tribal’ one that he and his colleagues conspired with @NGRPresident and kangarooed into ‘law’ in violation of constitutional processes.
“Get ready to ‘prosecute’ me when you pass your noxious #CounterSubversionBill into an Act. But before then, please note that if there is any group of Nigerians that deserve a Subversion Act, it is you and your colleagues at @nassnigeria, who consistently subvert the progress of Nigeria and her people through your legendary public misdemeanors that accumulate into bad governance. Your citizens have spoken up in unison, asking you and your colleagues in the Executive and Judicial Arms to #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria. You obviously have still not heard the ticking chimes of time. Continue with your irrelevancies while the country totters… continue if it pays you.”
