Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, Wole Soyinka has delivered to scathing response to Olusegun Obasanjo on comments made by the former Nigerian President about Professor Soyinka in his new book “My Watch.”
Mr. Obasanjo had belittled Prof. Soyinka’s political expertise saying: “He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful “aparo” (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic, not to talk of what he would do as a politician…I take him seriously on almost all issues except on the political particularly Nigerian politics.”
But in a treatise, titled Watch and Pray, Watch and Prey, Soyinka labelled the former president an “infantile career liar.”
According to Soyinka, Obasanjo was“a seasoned predator on others’ achievements – he preys on their names, their characters, their motivations, their true lives, preys on gossip and preys on facts, preys on contributions to collective undertakings…even preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible. Well, hopefully he may actually believe in the inevitable End to all vanities?”
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