Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has
advised President Muhammadu Buhari to stop admiring and displaying loyalty to
an unnamed individual whom he referred to late MKO Abiola’s
“Tormentor-in-Chief.”
Some are of the opinion that he had
referred to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, who clamped the business mogul
to jail for about five years.
Abiola died in prison.
Although Soyinka did not mention
Abacha’s name specifically, the Nobel laureate said it was confusing for Buhari
to honour Chief Moshood Abiola on the one hand, and be admiring the late
politician’s “Tormentor-in-Chief” on the other.
He wondered why President Buhari
will continue to display loyalty to a man he described as “one of the worst
dictators in the history of the country” and who should be having his days in
court for crime against humanity.
Soyinka said that in a private
meeting with Buhari, he had also raised concerns over how the President could
be saying his administration was fighting corruption, whereas a major road in
the Federal Capital Territory is named after a “corrupt former leader.”
He said he was not satisfied with
the response he got from Buhari.
He called on the President to
consider establishing a Hall of Shame for those who have wronged the country,
just as he puts up Hall of Fame for the nation’s heroes.
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