[b]Following the rift with former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, over who chairs board of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday, said he has resigned as the CBCIU Chairman.
In a statement, Soyinka said that he was frustrated and embarrassed at the continued reference of a court suit involving Oyinlola and the CBCIU as a leadership tussle.

“This is painful reductionism,” Mr. Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature, said in the letter dated July 14, 2015.
“In any case, I am left with no choice but to openly demand of the governor of Osun State, the immediate and formal acceptance of my resignation letter from CBCIU chairmanship.”
Soyinka and Oyinlola had been engaged in a war of words over the headship of the Oshogbo-based CBCIU, a category 2 facility under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, established in 2009.
Last month, Mr. Soyinka had stated that Mr. Oyinlola’s parading of himself as the head of CBCIU was “unlawful and unethical.”

‎In 2008, as governor of Osun State, Mr. Oyinlola signed into law the CBCIU Act which stipulated that he would be the Chairman of the Board for life.

However, four years later, the Osun State House of Assembly amended the law to state that the Chairman of the Board shall be ‎”the Governor or anyone appointed by him for that purpose.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola appointed Mr. Soyinka as Chairman of the Board in August 2012.

Mr. Oyinlola headed to court to challenge the decision.

In ‎his letter of resignation, Soyinka noted that his decision to head the CBCIU Board was out of self-service.
“I undertook this assignment on principle – quite apart from my sentimental attachment to the political constituency of my late friend, Bola Ige, assassinated by those very forces against which CBCIU must remain resolutely embattled,” Mr. Soyinka stated in the letter.

“More relevant however is that I have always found it despicable conduct when an elected individual diverts the resources of the people over whom he presides to carving out for himself a sinecure. Self-service should not be read in the vocabulary of anyone fortunate enough to be called to serve his or her people.”
Professor Soyinka in his statement insisted that the “legal tussle” is between Mr. Oyinlola and Osun state authorities.

‎”Let me repeat this: I have not instituted any case against either governor, nor have I been issued with any summons to appear either as plaintiff or respondent,” he said.

“The CBCIU is of course the object of contention, but the CBCIU is not listed among my personal possessions or creations. To play a variation on the late MKO Abiola’s favorite sayings: while I do occasionally loan out my head to crack a coconut, I deplore any attempt to have it shaved it in my absence. I am not a party to this case.”

Soyinka also said that the state’s lawyers decision to leave him out of the court hearings was an affirmation of his irrelevance in the matter.

“I am totally in the dark, except through the concern of colleagues who have forwarded media reports on the notice of resumption. I am out of the country at present and, for all I know, may be cited for contempt for failure to put in appearance etc.

“I must not end this brief position statement without commending Prince Oyinlola yet again for pursuing his quest for justice the civil way – submitting himself to the authority of the law courts. This is what has been constantly urged on him – wait. Do not pre-empt the court and do not concoct, distort or embellish its pronouncements.”

The latest verbal exchange between Soyinka and Oyinlola was sparked by the latter’s announcement of his Board’s intention to host the second Global Conference of Black Nationalities in Bahia, Brazil, in November.
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“Equally praiseworthy is Prince Oyinlola’s formal notice to would-be participants of the ‘postponement’ of the much touted conference on globalization, originally destined for Brazil this November,” said Mr. Soyinka.

“This ‘postponement’ by a full year should provide more than enough time for Oyinlola to put his entire tenure within the CBCIU – both the disputed and the undisputed – in fiscal order, and thus be seen as a shining example of the virtue of accountability.

“When the legal air has been cleared and the corpse of impunity firmly interred in this instance, there shall be a public inquest over this avoidable penkelemes. The saga is not yet over. There is still much to be shared in the cause of public enlightenment, including the hidden hand of ‘godfathers’ who still obsess over cultural possessions to which they have neither legal nor moral entitlements[/b]

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/leadership-tussle-soyinka-resigns-as-cbciu-chair/

Cc lalasticlala

jeezZzz finaly I made it FTC --- dancing shoki--- runs out of room shouting-- the lord has done it, I knew one day I will make it,

Introvert and ladyF una time don pass as BB don get andriod, chang is here to stay as revolution to FTC continues


As for u soyinka the living legeng God bless u as u take the Rightful decition





Soyinka my role model
Buhari my mentor
Fayose my democrats
Amechi our future minister
Rochas our fraudstar
Fashola our BRT internet chairman
Tinubu the jabagan of the west

gud

Posters above me, una no dey go church?

Ok.... I didn't read the post sha. I only booked this space to ask a question.


Please who is the mod that closed that thread where a guy wanted to post his girlfriend's nakkid picture?
And why was it closed?

How are my going to see the end of the issue and the nuude pix now

Good soyinka

i do not understand o! someone help me out

OK na, how does it put food on my tabley

Make I nor lie I not read the story.

We don hear una

Dedicated this FCT to all nairalanders!

I laugh

Wetin concern me

Na them sabi

So?

And it goes straight to fp.i hail

Join weyab.com and comment also

Hehehehehe....
Act one scene two
Soyinka : praise the lord
Oyinlola : halleluyah
Soyinka : the lord is good
Oyinlola : all the time
Soyinka : offering time
Oyinlola : blessing time
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.....
To be continued!!

I don't agree with Oyinlola on this matter as is not an inheritance. so y should he b allowed to head d board for life? in any case I will suggest he should allow Soyinka to head d CBCIU as already appointed by d governor. that's my take on this matter

lonelydora:
Posters above me, una no dey go church?

Church is for people of questionable intelligence and those that go to pick up ashawo.

agba ma n gba ni! Baba Eku Agba

Oyinlola How Market Na?





By The Time Soyinka Don Finish With You, You Go Enroll For National Open University Like Our Former President.


NB: I No Mention Obasanjo O....

Eleyi gidi gan o....boda wole..take am jeje

T4kbaba:
Dedicated this FCT to all nairalanders!

bulding in fools paradise

Literacy n civility @ it's peak...Soyinka d seasoned literarist!

Okay na

Nice and Honourable

lonelydora:
Posters above me, una no dey go church?

sorry dude we are back

Big grammar from Prof

Useless man