President Buhari Was Expected To Appoint Ezekwesili As Minister - Japheth Omojuwa Says

Blogger and social media influencer, Japheth Omojuwa, has said the then All Progressives Congress candidate in the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, was expected to appoint a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, as a member of his cabinet. The blogger also disclosed that Ezekwesili played some role during the 2015 electioneering because of the expectation that she would be made a minister in Buhari’s cabinet but the President did not appoint the ex-minister as a member of his cabinet when he assumed office.

Omojuwa, who said he has a 10-year relationship with the former minister beginning from 2012, stated this in a letter written by his lawyer, Boonyameen Lawal of Babalakin & Co Legal Practitioners.

The letter dated April 14, 2021 was titled, ‘Demand For Full Disclosure And Public Apology By Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili In Respect Of Alpha Reach Ltd’.

The PUNCH had mentioned that Ezekwesili threatened to sue Omojuwa for alleged impersonation.

The former minister had expressed shock that she was listed as a director in Omojuwa’s media organization, Alpha Reach.

The revelation become made in a document with the aid of a overseas medium, BuzzFeed, which had exposed the function Omojuwa and different influencers allegedly performed in the social media campaign for the discharge of alleged fraudster, Alex Saab, a Colombian who has been declared desired in the United States and is going through extradition fees in Cape Verde.

Documents circulating online show that Omojuwa’s business enterprise, which become registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 2012, has Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and Ezekwesili as administrators.

The business enterprise, Alpha Reach, is believed to have performed an lively position inside the campaign #FreeAlexSaab.

But within the letter thru his legal professional, Omojuwa said he sought Ezekwesili’s consent before he indexed her as a director in his employer.

The letter partially read, “Our client (Omojuwa) sought and received your patron’s (Ezekwesili’s) consent earlier than listing her as a Director of the organization, based on their near dating.”

The blogger said both El-Rufai and Ezekwesili have been eliminated as administrators of Alpha Reach Company in 2015 because it changed into positive that El-Rufai could grow to be governor of Kaduna State and Ezekwesili might be appointed a minister inside the regime of the President.

“It became now not till 2015 whilst it changed into sure that HE Mallam El-Rufai became going to grow to be the Governor of Kaduna State and the likelihood that your patron (Ezekwesili) will be appointed a Minister by using the then President-pick Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, that they have been each removed as Directors of the corporation.

“You may take into account that your patron (Ezekwesili) honoured the ruling birthday party’s (APC) invitation to deliver a keynote speech at a public forum in Abuja in 2014, and there was a wellknown expectation that she could play a role in President Buhari’s authorities. Indeed, your client (Ezekwesili) leaned on our customer (Omojuwa) to publish and distribute her speech on the APC discussion board,” the letter study