Oby Ezekwesili  a former World Bank Vice-President  also questioned the 'incomprehensible redeployment of a competent Director of ICT whose team has recorded a string of credible elections in recent times...
	 
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	      Some of the independents could be technocrats in the mould of Oby Ezekwesili  ex-Vice-President of the World Bank and Bring Back our Girls campaigner  or Kingsley Moghalu  former deputy governor of the central bank  who both ran in 2019...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Kingsley Moghalu and Obiageli Ezekwesili  who made no impact as candidates of minority parties in the 2019 election  have moved back to private life...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This year there is an impressive crop of small-party candidates such as former Education Minister Oby Ezekwesili and former deputy governor of the central bank Kingsley Moghalu but none are likely to poll more than a few per cent...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Oby Ezekwesili  the former Education Minister and ex-Vice President of the World Bank's Africa region  is running on the ticket of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Neither have the 'non-partisan' Red Card Movement and National Coalition Movement – backed respectively by #BringBackOurGirls campaigner and former World Bank vice-president  Obiageli Ezekwesili and Obasanjo – launched the third force or mega party to break the national political mould...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     At the launch were Oby Ezekwesili  a former Minister of Education and a leader of the group demanding the return of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls  and Olisa Agbakoba  a senior lawyer and long-time human rights activist...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Cackhanded attempts by the government in Abuja to undermine the #bringbackourgirls campaign led by former Education Minister Oby Ezekwesili have backfired...
	 
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	     The local campaign #bringbackourgirls is led by luminaries such as Obi Ezekwesili  former Education Minister and Vice-President of the World Bank  and Hadiza Bala Usman  an activist from a radical northern family and former Special Assistant to Nasir El-Rufai...
	 
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	     Then Obi Ezekwesili  a leader of the campaign and former Africa Vice-President of the World Bank  condemned an attack on a #bringbackourgirls vigil at Unity Fountain  Abuja  on 28 May by what she described as government-supporting thugs...