{"id":51888,"date":"2024-10-02T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T09:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/god-will-give-nigerians-second-independence-from-domestic-colonialists-ezekwesili\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T09:05:24","slug":"god-will-give-nigerians-second-independence-from-domestic-colonialists-ezekwesili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/god-will-give-nigerians-second-independence-from-domestic-colonialists-ezekwesili\/","title":{"rendered":"God will give Nigerians second independence from domestic colonialists \u2013 Ezekwesili"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, has prayed that God will grant Nigerians a second independence from domestic colonialists.<\/p>\n<p>Ezekwesili said the domestic colonialists have chosen to subvert the public office for their selfish interest rather than govern for the common good of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister made the remark to celebrate Nigeria\u2019s 64th independence anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Ezekwesili wrote: \u201cNothing and I mean nothing, can ever take away the deeper joy of love of country and people that one feels as the plane safely touches down at home after travels abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how the conditions of our country, Nigeria, break our hearts, I often take solace in the scripture- \u201cHope Maketh Not Ashamed\u201d. Hope is inexhaustible as I often encourage myself to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we arrived home on this 64th Independence Day, my hopeful heart prayed: \u201cLord support your people\u2019s efforts for a Second Independence \u2013 this time from their domestic colonialists who instead of governing for our Common Good have serially chosen to subvert public office for selfish personal interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay our Lord, The Good-Good Father strengthen our hearts, my fellow citizens, this Independence Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God will give Nigerians second independence from domestic colonialists \u2013 Ezekwesili<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, has prayed that God will grant Nigerians a second independence from domestic colonialists. Ezekwesili said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10141,15,901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ezekwesili","category-news","category-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}