Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari lacks capacity to handle the problems confronting the country.
He stated this on Sunday when some students paid him a courtesy visit to mark his 85th birthday.
The literary icon stated that while some state governments were putting up impressive performances, the same could not be said of the Federal Government which he said has “failed”.
He added that the Buhari administration must let go of partisanship to find lasting solutions to the country’s problems.
Soyinka maintained that a national conference must be called to find solutions to the plethora of problems bedeviling the nation.
He said, “The problems of this nation are beyond the solution that can be offered by this government, that’s the first admission; they have to stop thinking in partisan government.
“There has always been a major problem with successive governments. It’s easier on the state level to say that a particular state is definitely doing better than another state. But the central government has failed, that’s my view in the main.
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“There is a minimal level which any government which has been elected to power must achieve to be considered a true representative of the people.
“Look at what’s happening today with the cattle all over the place, that’s a security issue which should never have reached this level. That singular act has resulted in hundreds of people being killed, farms were taken over; it has wiped away a lot of the positive achievements of the government.
“They need to confront this nation as a habitation of human beings where very serious issues like economy, security, health, even threats of secession come up every day and convoke at the same time, a national conference, what I call an Indaba across all section which we will all meet and debate everything, including the economy of this nation.”
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