Okonjo-Iweala had been awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters on Monday, May 18, 2015 during Yale's Commencement ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut, alongside eight others.
The petition, which is being hosted on Change.org, the world's largest petition platform, was started by a Nigerian resident in the United States, one Sunday Iwalaiye.
On a visit to the web page, it was discovered that 453 more petitions were needed to reach 2,500, which will probably prompt the organisation to consider the petition worthy of consideration.
When the petitioner kicked off the movement, the signatures had trickled in by the seconds but they have since leaped to over 2,000, with more probably on the way.
Tagged “Yale University gave its prestigious honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian,” the petition reads in part: "There is no tangible evidence of any economic development in Nigeria under the leadership of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (sic) in all reality.
"Nigeria's economy is still an oil-dependent economy that is debt and borrowing ridden as well as 100% consuming and importing in nature.”
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2,047 signatories: what is that to 170,000,000 population of Nigeria? This is stupendous and should be condemned by all well meaning Nigerians. This is personal vendetta. Dr Ngozi's intimidating profile is not hidden; and Yale University's Research Department cannot be drawn into Disgraceful African Politics (DAP). Dr Ngozi had been an accomplished DIPLOMAT before being invited to head the Nigerian Government's Economic Team. Am disappointed at Sunday Iwalaiye and their vexatious complainants. I urge Yale University to disregard their ill-conceived and politically motivated petition.
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