PM NEWS
Chimamanda Adichie has faulted Prof. Wole Soyinka that the comments made by Datti Baba-Ahmed were in deed fascist in nature.
Adichie, in an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday night, said she still held Soyinka in high esteem and admired him, but that she disagreed with him on this particular issue about Datti.
“Because I respect Soyinka a lot, I went back and watch the interview again. I think fascism is a really strong word, which often made me think of Mussolini of Italy.We use it now. I do not see any reason Datti Baba-Ahmed’s interview would have been termed fascist.
“I think he was making a very strongly and fair point about the election and he was saying, which again, I thought is fairly reasonable, that if our democracy is rooted in the constitution and you then swear in a person who is being elected unconstitutionally, and you are in fact ending democracy. I think it is quite a reasonable position. Of course we can argue about what that means in the constitution,” Adichie said.
