Obasanjo Is A Liar, Economic Illiterate – Soyinka

The Nobel laureate and playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has lambasted the former president Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he has no respect for him.

Soyinka, Obasanjo

The Punch reports that he hurled insults at the former president on last night, Friday, August 28, while he was responding to questions during a programme named An evening with Wole Soyinka, organised by Globacom. The former president, in his book titled My Watch, referred to Soyinka as someone who is good at hunting and wines but a political illiterate. However, when the Nobel laureate was asked to comment on the former president’s assessment of him in his book, Soyinka said that he was hardly bothered because he believed that Obasanjo was a liar.

Soyinka said: “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’ I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was once described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as an economic illiterate. They nearly ‘went into blow’ that night. It was Prof. Mabogunje who separated them. So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate, no problem at all. In ‘ My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he deplored lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an unconstitutional third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word to describe him.”
The feud between the former president and the Nobel laureate did not just start today. Obasanjo had once stated that Soyinka once vowed that the differences between the two of them would not be resolved on earth. Obasanjo had also in his book, My Watch, and at public events described Soyinka as more an expert in wine matters than in political analysis.

Source:Naij

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