Obasanjo concoct lies to score points -Soyinka Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed shock at the contents of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s autobiography, titled My Watch. The literary icon slammed the ex-President calling him an expert in telling lies. In the three-volume book, Obasanjo described Soyinka as a misfit. He wrote, “For Wole (Soyinka), no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones will always be right and correct no matter what they do or fail to do.” “He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful “aparo” (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic.” Soyinka, in a piece titled ‘Watch And Pray, Watch And Prey’, however, described Obasanjo as a shameless man. He noted that it was unfair for the former President to openly condemn his former Special Adviser, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, who is “young enough to be his son.” He said, “For now, let me single out just one of the most glaring instances of this man’s compulsive career of lying; one sample that the media can readily check upon and use as a touchstone - if they do need one - in assessing our author’s multifaceted claims and commentaries on people and events. “I refer here to the grotesque and personally insulting statement that he has attributed to me for some inscrutable but obviously diversionary reasons. In the process, this past Master of Mendacity brazenly implicates an innocent young man, Akin Osuntokun, who once served him as a Special Adviser. “Instead of conferring dignity on a direct rebuttal of an ignoble fabrication, I shall simply make a personal, all-embracing attestation: “I despise that species of humanity whose stock-in-trade is to concoct lies simply to score a point, win an argument, puff up his or her own ego, denigrate or attempt to destroy a fellow being. However, even within such deplorable species, a special pit of universal opprobrium is surely reserved for those who even lack the courage of their own lies, but must foist them on others. “When an old man stuffs a lie into the throat of an age-mate of his own children - omo inu e! - we can only pity an irredeemable egomaniac whose dotage is headed for twilight disgrace.” The literary icon said Obasanjo’s palatial home was acquired through ‘executive extortionism’ just as President Goodluck Jonathan recently got N21bn at a fundraising. He noted that both Jonathan and Obasanjo were leaders, who are known for glorifying impunity. He said, “That obscene proceeding (fundraising) has certainly set a competitive precedent for impunity in President Jonathan’s recent fund-raising shindig, editorialised in THE PUNCH (Dec. 23, 2014) as ‘Impunity Taken too Far’. So much for the latest from that direction - we mustn’t allow Handing-Over notes between presidents to distract us for too long.”
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:13:49 +0000
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