ON PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA AND THE FIRST LADY Professor Wole Soyinka is a monumental embarrassment for three reasons: 1. People see him as an elder statesman who should the apolitical in his stance on national issues. He has obviously been paid to take sides with Governor Amaechi against the Presidency. He should look at what other Nobel laureates are doing around the world and not his petty fogging denigration of national institutions and authorities. 2. In pristine African Tradition, you have no right to talk to another man’s wife like that. If Wole Soyinka, who just turned 79 years do not know these elementary rules, them is it senility? Professor Soyinka – the architect of cultism in Nigeria said what he said in bad faith. 3. Soyinka knows that the Presidency is a personification of the Nigerian State in a Presidential system and such an institution deserves some respect. The opprobrium Prof has brought to himself is a display of pettiness which smacks of disrespect of constituted authority. Professor Wole, we respect you but do not push some of us to the elastic limit of endurance. Do not tempt some of us who idolize you to think otherwise. You should grow above pettiness, politics of mudslinging, blame game and analyze issues dispassionately with the public interest at heart. You were given the Nobel Laureate Literature not politics of the Nigerian variety. Thank you. John Idumange
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 01:41:43 +0000
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