Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has slammed President
Muhammadu Buhari for his “slow response” in dealing with the terror caused by
Fulani herdsmen across many parts of Nigeria.
He said Buhari has failed on the security threat posed by
herdsmen, adding that he was repeating the mistakes of his predecessor,
Goodluck Jonathan, in not dealing with the Boko Haram menace in a timely and
adequate fashion.
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of
tyranny”, he said.
Soyinka appeared on the BBC’s Hardtalk programme on Monday
and anchored by Zeinab Badawi.
Reacting to Badawi’s
question that he backed Buhari in 2015 describing the ex-army general as a
“reformed democrat”, Soyinka said Buhari “won by default” in 2015 because it
was difficult to back Jonathan and which meant supporting a continuation of the
corruption associated with that regime. Nigerians were caught “between the
devil and the deep blue sea”.
Soyinka criticized Jonathan’s ineffective response to Boko
Haram, but placing the blame for failing to nip the problem in the bud at the
feet of Olusegun Obasanjo, who was president from 1999 to 2007.
He said; “Obasanjo contributed to the emergence of Boko
Haram by not preventing the first governor in one of the northern states from
establishing a “theocratic state”.
Soyinka said that the president failed to act because he was
“compromised” by his ambitions to continue in office beyond the second term
limit.
He was however silent about why Buhari’s response to the
killings of the herdsmen was so inadequate and said little about how the
problem could be tackled effectively.
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