LEGIT NG
Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize winner, has faulted how Nigerians simplify his response on whether he will criticise the government of President Bola Tinubu or not.
Soyinka, in an interview with Channels Television, expressed his displeasure with the matter at which the press simplifies interviewees’ responses, adding that it is “one thing which distresses me.”
Soyinka recalled how he was tagged tribalist when Obasanjo became president
The literary icon maintained that he had the culture of maintaining decorum for the first year of any government before coming out to criticise the government. He stressed that his relationship with Tinubu would not stop him from criticising his government if there was the need to do so.
According to the octogenarian, he was thrown the same question when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was first inaugurated in 1999, he was criticised for keeping quiet, and many simplified his silence as meaning being tribalistic because Obasanjo was his kinsman.
He maintained that after one year of Obasanjo in office and he began his criticism, many of them did not remember referring to him as being tribalistic.
