Obi Had Better Not Contest For Presidency Again, Soyinka says
The only Nigerian Nobel laureate winner, Professor Wole Soyinka has given his opinion on the next general elections. The elder statesman gives his view as the administration of President Bola Tinubu is about to clock one year.
The professor said that the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi had better not contest for the presidency again. The literature icon argued that the team that worked for the former Anambra State governor is incompetent to lead the country.
Soyinka, who has come under serious fire from the supporters of Obi, said, Soyinka said, “It has to do with education. I didn’t read all these (insults by Obidient Movement) but of course, some links were sent to me, especially when facts were ‘being manufactured’.
“When I read these things, I was disgusted. There’s no other word for it. I really was disgusted and I know that it was orchestrated.”
“I know that there is a relay mechanism, which is triggered into action by those who control what we call the trolls of the Internet, and so my disgust and contempt. I just went about my business, you know, because nobody, anybody on this earth who thinks they can stop me telling the truth as I see it needs to have his or her head examined. It’s as elementary as that.
Soyinka pressed further, “But it is depressing to see those who wanted to be political leaders encouraging that kind of action, that kind of attitude in the youth. And my mind went to the expression, ‘They don’t know what they’re doing’. Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
The icon had once described Peter Obi’s supporters as “nitwits”.
When asked about Obi and his candidacy in the last election, Soyinka said, “I hope for the sake of the nation that he doesn’t express interest in the next election because for me as a leader, if there was any proof that he was unfit to lead that country, it’s in the conduct which he encouraged among his followers.”
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