Judges’ arrests: Ezekwesili tackles presidential spokesman, Shehu [MUST READ]
A former minister and a leader of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Oby Ezekwesili , has expressed dismay over a tweet by a presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, which suggested that some media houses acted against Nigeria’s interest in their reporting of the recent arrest of some judges by the State Security Services (SSS). “To suggest that the government is acting outside the law in a dictatorial manner is to breach the interest of the state,” Mr. Shehu tweeted on Sunday. The tweet was picked from the first press statement issued by the presidency after the country’s secret police raided the homes of some senior judges and arrested seven of them, including two Supreme Court judges. The judges were later released Monday evening. The presidency, in the statement, had accused the media of portraying the incident as a confrontation between the executive and the judiciary. Mrs. Ezekwesili quickly took on Mr. Shehu on the social media site. “Delete your Press Release,” she wrote....