Nigerians Attack Ezekwesili, Jim Ovia For Attending WEF In South Africa Despite Xenophobic Attacks

A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, and Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Jim Ovia are both under heavy attack for attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting holding in South Africa amid protests by Nigerian and other countries against xenophobic attacks by South Africans.

Mrs. Ezekwesili, a social critic and former presidential candidate, and Ovia were criticized by some Nigerians on Twitter for attending the forum despite the Federal Government shunning the forum to protest the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians residing in South Africa.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, had tweeted that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was to represent Nigeria at the WEF, but “he had called it off in reaction to these gruesome attacks on Nigerians.”

By Wednesday evening, pictures surfaced across social media showing Mrs. Ezekwesili and Jim Ovia, at the WEF event in South Africa. Many Nigerians expressed outrage over their attendance to the international forum amidst diplomatic rows between Nigeria and South Africa.

See some of the reactions below:

Why is no one talking about "JIM OVIA" ? I see only Madam Oby beign called out.
PS who else think they are both hypocrites? pic.twitter.com/QajvkiCwht

— Bakare_Mubarak (@Bakare_Mubarakk) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/BlackStCapital/status/1169299569865310208

Madam Oby, what are you doing today at the World Economic Forum in South Africa where fellow Nigerians are killed in #XenophobicAttacks
If Nigerians in South Africa give her the Ekweremadu treatment, Lessons will be learnt. pic.twitter.com/61nXvIHzWH

— Youngichu™❁ (@youngichu) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/mutakb/status/1169338478095732736

Madam Oby Ezekwezili is just one of those well-packaged Twitter hypocrites who just come up with populist opinions on every issue just to continually be in the news. I'm just imagining the number of threads she'd have done if Buhari was the one attending WEF at a time like this! pic.twitter.com/XkLYXPAlfT

— El Commandante® (@MrLekanAdigun) September 4, 2019

Tiwa Savage cancelled a whole show that will earn her thousands of dollars but Madam Oby, one of our Presidential Candidate went boldly to the same South Africa for a meeting.

Musa can now die in peace, he has seen everything at the gate pic.twitter.com/2wqLGBfzkI

— Ọláwálé (@walecoker65) September 4, 2019

Obviously, Madam Oby can sell her destiny for Cameras and dollar!

There's no justification whatsoever for her to accept the invitation if as clueless as @MBuhari can do the needful by boycotting the kangaroo WEF.

Shame!!! pic.twitter.com/sIYkqSWiqv

— ADC Vanguard (@ADCVanguard_) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/MimaMercedez/status/1169335432766771200

Madam Oby can't be in G-Unit fo sho!
Imagine 50' beefing with Ja Rule and u decided to go for his son's penis circumcision ceremony!
Wakanda move is that

— John NetworQ (@JohnNetworQ) September 4, 2019

Madam Oby is the last person I expect would go to a WEF in South Africa that everybody has concluded Nigeria should stay away from. I am really surprised that she of all people would do something she would have spoken very strongly against if somebody else did it.

— Henry Okelue 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/PhiiCoco/status/1169330538315993090

Madam Oby and Jim Ovia has failed the city. Do to them whatever you wish. pic.twitter.com/Ylp2sncieG

— CryptoLord NE 📊📈 (@CryptoDefiLord) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/Kindedeh/status/1169497583678566400

Somebody needs to sit madam Oby down and remind her that Muhammadu Buhari is the president of Nigeria and Nigeria is still her country, making him her president until 29th May 2023.
No amount of Einstein knowledge, pontification and grandstanding can change these

— Souljah (@jeffphilips1) September 4, 2019

So if we had elected madam oby as our 1st female president, this is how she would have gone to South Africa & attended the World Economic Summit despite the #XenophobicAttacks on Nigerians@obyezeks pls remain in https://t.co/feyEVy3fdf, dont come back. Thanks#SayNoToXenophobia pic.twitter.com/rGvyqwZsF2

— Kate-Nnaji (@nnaji_kate) September 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/Babatundequdu13/status/1169308483914784768

Madam Oby at the World Economic Forum going on in South Africa… The love for dollars and camera lights is more than those Nigerians that are being killed by South Africans… pic.twitter.com/dzreemUzEu

— KING KUKUTE (@Ade_Nurayn) September 4, 2019