The Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said
that he has no respect for Obasanjo, who he
described as an indescribable liar.

Soyinka carpeted the former president on Friday
night when he was responding to questions
during a programme tagged: ‘An evening with
Wole Soyinka’, organised by Globacom.

Asked to respond to Obasanjo’s assessment of
him in the former president’s book titled ‘My
Watch’, where he notes that Soyinka is good at
hunting and wines but a political illiterate,
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 former President and the Nobel laureate
have been in a running battle taking swipes at
each other over a lingering issue between them.
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 an expert in
wine matters than in political analysis.

He had said, “For Wole, no one can be good, nor
can anything be spot-on politically except that
which emanates from him or is ordained by him.
His friends and loved ones will always be right
and correct, no matter what they do or fail to
do. He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a
more successful aparo (guinea fowl) hunter than
a political critic.

“Wole Soyinka is a gifted man. I have always
acknowledged that but he is a bad politician and
I have also always said that. That is my own
point of view. He may agree with it, he may not
agree with it. For instance, I know that if I want
somebody to give me the best wine, one of the
people I will go to is Wole Soyinka and I know
he has a taste for good wine and I said that in
the book.”

However, last year December, shortly after the
book went public, Soyinka had, in a piece titled,
‘Watch and Pray, Watch and Prey’, vehemently
protested such a description (of him), calling
Obasanjo ‘’an expert liar, who lies to boost his
ego.’’

But in an interview granted a private television
station, Channels, on a programme tagged,
‘Book Club’, Obasanjo, while holding on to his
words, said what he wrote about Soyinka was
purely his view, adding that Soyinka did not
have to agree with him.



Cc: Lalasticlala



www.nigerianmonitor.com/2015/08/29/obasanjo-is-a-liar-an-economic-illiterate-soyinka/

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