By Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has reacted to criticisms that he was instrumental to the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
In the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, the foremost playwright, a known critic of the administration of the former President Goodluck Jonathan, said he wouldn’t advise anyone to support his re-election bid.
Though he rejected Jonathan, Soyinka had said he never backed the candidacy of Buhari, a former military dictator.
Speaking in an interview aired o Channels Television on Monday, the octogenarian slammed critics who claimed he helped “install” Buhari, describing the talks as “rubbish”.
“When people talk about Wole Soyinka installing Buhari, they are talking rubbish; they don’t know what they are talking about. They are talking from ignorance. When I think of the governed themselves, I asked myself, ‘What am I doing among these people that they don’t understand that if somebody misrules, you have a right to tell people not to vote for him?’ And it is their business after that who they vote for but they have the option of spoiling their votes,” he said.
“So, when I hear Wole Soyinka was the one who installed Buhari and he should apologise to the nation, I say, ‘Your parents should apologise to the world for inflicting morons like you on the world.’”
