Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, on Friday, hinted at how some people had schemed to tilt the country towards having an interim government before the elections on 25th February 2023.
Mr Soyinka, who asserted during the interactive session of his book launch titled “The Putin Files: Excursions Around The Ideology Of Pain” in Lagos, noted that those who were in support were only being manipulated.
The 88-year-old author said, “Some people had schemed to tilt the country towards having an interim government. That tendency had been apparent even before the election’’.
Although Soyinka did not reveal the identity of the persons he claimed were behind the scheme, he wanted the interim government; some believed he was undeniably referring to ‘Obidients’ as Peter Obi’s supporters are called.
In February 2023, Soyinka, in an interview with Channels Television, had allegedly said that if Obi lost the presidential election, it would be his followers who caused it….
