{"id":22868,"date":"2018-11-22T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22868"},"modified":"2018-11-22T23:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T23:23:20","slug":"bring-back-our-girls-activist-oby-ezekwesili-vows-to-disrupt-nigerias-politics-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22868","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back our Girls activist Oby Ezekwesili vows to disrupt &#8216;Nigeria&#8217;s politics of failure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>Bring Back our Girls activist and former Nigerian minister Oby Ezekwesili has thrown her hat into the election ring for Nigeria&#8217;s upcoming 2019 elections and says her candidacy will &#8220;disrupt the politics of failure&#8221; in Africa&#8217;s most populous nation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ezekwesili in an interview with Christiane Amanpour said bad governance had become endemic in Nigeria and citizens no longer hold leaders accountable for corruption or corrupt acts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;It [Nigerian politics] produced dismal results such that today Nigeria is the world&#8217;s capital of extreme poverty,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Bring Back our Girls activist and former Nigerian minister Oby Ezekwesili has thrown her hat into the election ring for Nigeria&#8217;s upcoming 2019 elections and says her candidacy will &#8220;disrupt the politics of failure&#8221; in Africa&#8217;s most populous nation.Ezekwesili in an interview with Christiane Amanpour said bad governance had become endemic in Nigeria&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}