NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has been described as a disgrace to the current democratic struggle in Nigeria, because of his recent unguarded and reckless verbal attacks against Senator Datti Baba- Ahmed, the Vice- Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), during the February 25th, 2023 Presidential Elections in Nigeria.
This view was expressed via a press release made available to journalists on Friday 6th of April, 2023, in Benin City, by Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, Chairman, Media & Publicity Committee, Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council ( LP- PCC) Edo State.
Comrade Nowinta said that Prof. Wole Soyinka injured the feelings of Obedient family globally by describing them as “fascists”, in the current political struggle and descended to the gutter of unpatriotic rebels in Nigeria.
According to the full text of the press release:
“Prof. Wole Soyinka descended to the gutter of unpatriotic rebels in Nigeria and injured the feelings of Obedient family globally, by choosing to take side with those that specialises in soaking our country with blood and bleeding it repeatedly and consistently, going by the way the February 25th, 2023 Presidential Election was rigged by political cartels.
“What has happened to the conscience of this Nobel laureate at 88 years; who does he want; what is he being promised or given that he has decided to jeopardize and abandon the path of national sanity, progress and decency?
“Why has he decided to walk and reason with those unleashing discriminatory and horrifying attacks on the civilian populace in the name of our stolen mandate? Why is this Prof. wearing the toga of pegeants of pandemonium, scandals, outrage and lawlessness?
“What moral superiority is Wole Soyinka claiming in a country swimming in the ocean of institutionalized and structural violence against the masses? Why is this man providing lethal verbal assistance to the likes of Bola Ahmed Tinubu at a time of deepening political tensions?
“Surely this Prof. is a disgrace to our current democratic struggle, in a country that has become an insane environment; a stunning tale of tragedy and neglect; where the masses are being grinded to dust by political criminals.
“By calling us ‘fascists’ because we want to claim back our country is irrational and absurd coming from Wole Soyinka. But, while we eagerly wait for the outcome of the petition already served by Peter Obi at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, we are confident in the supreme influence of divinity to win our stolen mandate back.”
