{"id":13543,"date":"2018-11-18T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2018-11-18T21:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:38:52","slug":"2019-campaigns-ezekwesili-makes-history-says-im-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13543","title":{"rendered":"2019 campaigns: Ezekwesili makes history, says I\u2019m the best\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), and former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, on Sunday made history as the first presidential candidate to formally kick off her campaign for the 2019 elections.<\/div>\n
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\nConsequently, she has released official photographs for the campaign, saying she remained \u201cthe best man for the job.\u201d
\nHajiya Aisha Yesufu, Director of Special Projects for \u201cHope 2019\u201d, the campaign organ of Ezekwesili, in a statement titled: \u201cHere comes the best MAN for the job, the woMAN\u201d,\u00a0was of the opinion that she would deliver Nigerians from economic strangulation, fight for the masses.
\nHer decision was premised on the regulation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which had on Saturday released guidelines for campaigns.
\nWhile campaign for Presidential and National Assembly elections commence on Sunday, campaigns for governorship and State Houses of Assembly will commence December 1 2018.
\nYesufu said, \u201cThe Obiageli \u2018Oby\u2019 Ezekwesili For President organisation – Hope 2019 –\u00a0 has issued official campaign photos as it kicked off the INEC-approved\u00a0campaign season.
\n\u201cHope 2019 campaign kicked-off officially on Sunday with a thanksgiving service in Abuja, after which the candidate will go to her home state, Anambra, to officially get blessings from the royal father and other elders of her community.
\n\u201cWe are excited and we can\u2019t wait. The best MAN for the job in 2019 is definitely a woMAN and this woman we know by her track record, will #Fight4Naija.\u201d
\nEzekwesili had promised to \u201clift over 80 million people out of poverty\u201d, if voted into office in the 2019 general elections.
\nShe challenged her rivals to \u201cbring up their doable programmes to better the lots of citizens.\u201d
\nAbout three weeks ago, Ezekwesili came so hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a corrupt, parochial, nepotistic and most partisan President ever produced in Nigeria.
\nShe however advised those who believed that Atiku Abukakar is the alternative for the 2019 general elections, to have a rethink because \u201cthey are one and the same, siamese twins of failure and destruction.\u201d
\nSpeaking during a World Press Conference in Lagos, former Vice President of the World Bank said while the All Progressives Congress (APC), deceived Nigerians with the empty mantra of change in 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was a failure.
\nAt the event, she also unveiled her \u201cOby Ezekwesili Roadmap to Victory in 2019\u201d tagged: #Fight4Naija.
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\n\u201c2019 cannot be \u201cAnyone But Buhari\u201d. Our country is not a recycling plant for uninspiring old men with their old ideas and old dubious characters. We deserve better than their aggressive mediocrity. And that is why I am running for president – to lead a people\u2019s movement that will permanently terminate bad leadership, retire these incompetents and fight for every Nigerian\u201d, she stated.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), and former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, on Sunday made history as the first presidential candidate to formally kick off her campaign for the 2019 elections.   Consequently, she has released official photographs for the campaign, saying she remained \u201cthe best man for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}