Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he has read several reports of the trending audio clip depicting the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, insulting President Muhammadu Buhari but he has not been able to spot any insults as insinuated by the media.

Soyinka said this in Abuja on Wednesday at a symposium on fake news organised by BBC News.

The playwright, who was a panellist at the event tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News’, urged the traditional media not to act like the electronic media by spreading unfounded allegations.

He said, “Just two or three days ago, I read an item where a minister was supposed to have insulted the President and it was carried in some media and I checked the statement and of course there was a video and so on and I looked through it, I read the text again and again and I said I have to relearn the English language because I didn’t see where the insults were.

“So sometimes, print media feels compelled to compete with the electronic media and this is a great mistake because there is a reputation, there is an expectation and you should not be embarrassed to show yourself superior to a medium which is accessible to the lowest, the very dregs of society.”

According to audio released by Phrank Shaibu, an aide of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Amaechi, said this in a conversation with some journalists.

In the clip, Amaechi, who is the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, purportedly said Buhari neither reads nor listens to anyone.

In one of the clips, Amaechi purportedly said, “The President is not listening to anybody. He doesn’t care. You can write anything you want. The President doesn’t care. Does he read?”

In another part of the audio, the minister threatened to bar journalists from events if the audio is leaked.

He said, “These are not things you publish ooo. If you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.

“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!

“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will divide!”

Amaechi was heard saying, “This country can never change, I swear. The only way this country can change is in a situation where everybody is killed.

“This country is going nowhere. When Magnus (Abe) was secretary to the Rivers State Government, I told him that this country is hopeless and helpless and he told me, ‘Oga, stop it’. This cannot be coming from a governor.


“But two months in Abuja, Magnus came to meet me and said, I agree with you; this country is hopeless and helpless. All they do in Abuja is to share money.

Members of Buhari’s media team as well as close associates of Amaechi have confirmed the authenticity of the clip but said it was edited out of context.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said on Tuesday that the controversial audio would not affect the ruling All Progressives Congress ahead of next month’s elections.

https://punchng.com/minister-didnt-insult-buhari-in-audio-tape-soyinka/

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Prof sir, you may have to go for refresher's course except you are being economical with the truth.

Prof, well said, but we know that rubbish was for ignorant and unintelligent Igbos and other anti Nigerian elements.



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Sarcasm at its peak

Amaechi was saying the truth na.


Does Buhari the dullard read

“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!“The rate of poverty is very high.The people are hungry.Nigeria will never change!”
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/304352-under-buhari-nigerians-are-hungry-poverty-is-growing-amaechi-says-in-secret-tape.html

Prof.fully knows the moral damage the tapes have really done to already battered image of this government except if believe he is still living in fool's paradise.

So Soyinka presume even if Amaechi didn't disparaged the president but forgets the solemn reality that Amaechi knows the Buhari-led APC government have really bastardized this country.

For goodness sake, Amaechi is the no-1 Buhari campaign DG.None of Amaechi/APC government have even offered any strong debunkment of this alarming but but not surprising discovery.

No amount of damage control can ever erase this scandal.Sophistication is not sagacity.Yorubas said "bi ashe ga si lan goo si"(As we grow older so we get stupidier).Too bad!

Hello Prof, there is no need to relearn your English Sir, it is good enough. The whole ploy was designed by those who are part of the Dubai strategist. They all promised Atiku that they would run his campaign and so he probably parted with some money, so those agents have been scrapping for materials to run their campaign and justify the money they collected from Atiku.

deomelllo:
Prof, well said, but we know that rubbish was for ignorant and unintelligent Igbos and other anti Nigerian elements.



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Empty cranium

will you shut up

Hungry man Wole Soyinka

haywire07:
Sarcasm at its peak

Abeg,lemme laugh with you,Prof is speaking english .

Saying the truth id not an insult nau....

Prof dont even bother yourself. The whole script was prepared for people who believed buhari is jubril
The script is suitable for people with IQ of 0.00001

Amechi only said the truth and that can't be construed to be an insult ...

Such a fool

So Soyinka wants to become a zombie in old age ?
Shame.

What Prof means is that Amaechi only repeated the obvious.

Buhari's criminal incompetence can no longer be considered as only malicious but also coming from a place of acute ignorance.

Calling a barely educated pathetic filth what he is, is not an insult.

9jatriot:
Hello Prof, there is no need to relearn your English Sir, it is good enough. The whole ploy was designed by those who are part of the Dubai strategist. They all promised Atiku that they would run his campaign and so he probably parted with some money, so those agents have been scrapping for materials to run their campaign and justify the money they collected from Atiku.

It is funny that you did not get the joke. Amaechi did not insult the president as being reported. He only stated the truth. Soyinka classic sarcasm. But some unintelligent people cannot decode it. It is a pity

Niorte:
Prof sir, you may have to go for refresher's course except you are being economical with the truth.

Lol. A Nobel laureate? He will comfortably lecture you and your generation yet unborn.

By the way, go and listen to the full clip rather than the yeye excerpts Reno posted for you wailers.

Racoon:


Prof.fully knows the moral damage the tapes have really done to already battered image of this government except if believe he is still living in fool's paradise.

So Soyinka presume even if Amaechi didn't disparaged the president but forgets the solemn reality that Amaechi knows the Buhari-led APC government have really bastardized this country.

For goodness sake, Amaechi is the no-1 Buhari campaign DG.None of Amaechi/APC government have even offered any strong debunkment of this alarming but but not surprising discovery.

No amount of damage control can ever erase this scandal.Sophistication is not sagacity.Yorubas said "bi ashe ga si lan goo si"(As we grow older so we get stupidier).Too bad!

Oga go listen to the full tape. You only listened to the excerpts. Have you asked yourself why Reno was releasing the purported tape in bits?

Nemesis001:
Amaechi was saying the truth na.



Does Buhari the dullard read

He doesn't. But still, he will be your president till 2023

Sentiments aside. Ameachi never insulted the President in that audio tape... However, things have actually gone worse under this Administration. They better change or be changed...

Misterdhee1:

Lol. A Nobel laureate? He will comfortably lecture you and your generation yet unborn.

By the way, go and listen to the full clip rather than the yeye excerpts Reno posted for you wailers.

You are just a sycophant. Noble laureate of what year? Does noble laureate confers eternal intelligence?

He is a prof in his own field, I bet I will lecture him when in my own field of study. Don't think everyone on Nairaland is like you. Let me just overlook the part of the generation you mention. I don't want to go low with you.

Hahahaha

Deep inside buhariz heart he knows that amaechi finished him but hiz trying to save face becos of election

Soyinka and the intelligentsia fuc*ked up on this one.

They helpled give us Buhari.

Soyinka and his brother Falana.

[b]IS LIKE SOYINKA NA APC[/b]