{"id":30720,"date":"2014-08-29T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30720"},"modified":"2014-08-29T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T21:44:03","slug":"bbog-ezekwesili-attack-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/bbog-ezekwesili-attack-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"BBOG: That Ezekwesili attack on journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Abba Adakole<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The garrulity of Oby Ezekwesili appears to know no bounds. Now that she has dumped every ethical standard to pursue the matter of the over 200 Chibok girls still in the detention centre of the mad group called Boko Haram, she is desperately trying to recruit new followers. And for refusing to join her less than decent and self-seeking campaign, she has picked on members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, her best supporter thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She wants members of the guild to go beyond their present involvement of causing their reporters to give vent to the position of the BBOG; come on board her irrational train; and put government under more fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The emotions of Oby can be understood as a woman and mother, but she is gradually stepping out of line and seeking to burn whatever remnant of goodwill she has.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many know that the BBOG is a creation of the opposition, which has taken a good venture and given it a bad name and an opprobrious status.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where was she when the PR firm of the APC in UK claimed that the group was part of the machinations of the opposition?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Didn&#8217;t she know that was enough for the &#8220;lucrative&#8221; project to be kept at bay by even those who bought into it initially?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the editors, being professional as they ought to be, even allowed her denigrating comments about them to see the light of the day as published in the Leadership newspaper: &#8220;We tried to hold meetings with editorial boards of media houses and it was difficult. I thought it was all about timing to align, that it would sort itself out. When the meeting wasn&#8217;t coming through, I decided to call the president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors to collaborate with us on Day 130. He said it was a good idea. 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