Soyinka sides with Obj, says: It takes real genius to succeed in spending four years actually doing nothing

Playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has surprisingly endorsed a a statement credited to former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Obasanjo had claimed that Nigeria was heading fast to becoming a failed state. He had also said Nigeria had never been more divided than it is under Buhari.

Soyinka who has never been on the same page with Obasanjo surprisingly agreed with him.

According to Soyinka:

Nigeria has never been divided as it is “under the policies and conduct of none other than President Buhari”.

“I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to change my stance on his record. Nonetheless, I embrace the responsibility of calling attention to any accurate reading of this nation from whatever source, as a contraption teetering on the very edge of total collapse,” he said.

“We are close to extinction as a viable comity of peoples, supposedly bound together under an equitable set of protocols of co-habitation, capable of producing its own means of existence, and devoid of a culture of sectarian privilege and will to dominate.

“The nation is divided as never before, and this ripping division has taken place under the policies and conduct of none other than President Buhari – does that claim belong in the realms of speculation?

“Does anyone deny that it was this president who went to sleep while communities were consistently ravaged by cattle marauders, were raped and displaced in their thousands and turned into beggars all over the landscape? Was it a different president who, on being finally persuaded to visit a scene of carnage, had nothing more authoritative to offer than to advice the traumatised victims to learn to live peacefully with their violators?

“It takes real genius to succeed in spending four years actually doing nothing. What it fails to do, or what it does wrongly, deceitfully or prejudicially is what concerns the citizenry”.