Nobel
Laureate Wole Soyinka has warned that even if Nigerians will not be re-electing
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, they should be wary of past leaders who
‘once contributed to the mess the country is battling with.’
Soyinka
who spoke yesterday as the Chairman and Guest of Honour of the 80th posthumous
birthday of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi in Lagos, narrated how he was
initially informed of a genuine interventionist movement and he was still
following up on that when some people also came out as an interventionist
movement, thereby hijacking the process.
“I
found it strange that those who once put us in the problem are now positioning
themselves as saviours who will rescue the country. I find it even stranger
that these people have begun to hijack the honest revolution. After hijacking,
the next was that they were forming coalition… I can’t imagine those who
instituted a political or constitutional conference only to hijack it for
tenure elongation being the ones claiming to save us,” Soyinka said.
Similarly,
Lagos human rights activist Femi Falana, SAN, said Nigerians must avoid handing
over the country back to those who brought it to the present state.
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