I Never Praised Tinubu – Prof Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, winner of the
1986 Nobel Prize for Literature has refuted the claims that he had
praised the goodness of aBola Tinubu, the ex-governor of Lagos state and
leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
A report making rounds in different media had cited Soyinka as admiring Tinubu’s maturity and political sacrifice for “saving Nigeria from the danger of falling into one party state”.
However, Premium Times reports that famous writer in an e-mail on
Thursday, November 26, distanced himself from the full report, saying he
had never said what was attributed to him.
“It is difficult to prescribe for the sort of mind that finds
itself so inadequate that it must foist its opinions on others, and with
such confident sense of impunity. Kindly assist me in letting the
public know that I am not in anyway connected with the publication that
has just been forwarded to me,” the professor stated.
“I can only yet again recommend my recent “occasional”
publication – The Republic of Liars – to the public as a cautionary
tract, while the growing population of victims await the routine descent
of the full operational wrath of Internet policing on all impudent
impersonators.”
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