Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole
Soyinka, has attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo again, saying he is
supporting a man he called ‘a devil’ several years ago to become Nigeria’s
president.
Soyinka, who was a panelist at
the event tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News,’ organised by BBC News,
charged Nigerians to be wary of Obasanjo who pretended to be the conscience of
the nation.
Though Soyinka did not mention
names, but his utterances ostensibly refers to Obasanjo and his former Vice
President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Atiku Abubakar.
Punch quoted Soyinka as saying
that if the former leader had been referring to a certain person (Atiku) for
eight years as a devil and is now telling Nigerians to vote for the devil, then
there was a reason for Nigerians to express some doubt.
According to Soyinka, “We have
got to develop a very healthy scepticism. If someone in a position of power for
eight years has lectured a nation for eight years and after that continued year
after year to continue to direct the minds of a whole nation in one direction,
only saying ‘this is Lucifer from hell’ for eight years in office and several
more years out of office, saying this is Lucifer and then one day he changed
his left hand and says behold your redeemer, which of the two is fake news?”
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Is CDNDC pro Atiku? A pro-democracy group is not expected to be partisan
ReplyDeleteLet's address the issue here: Prof Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian and entitled to his opinion as do any other for or against.
As a pro-democracy group, you are expected to point out real issues and not delibrate on the intangibles