Lagos, posted 9/26/2010 www.africanexaminer.com

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has joined partisan politics,
emerging as the national chairman of the Democratic Front for a
Peoples Federation, DFPF.

Soyinka was elected unopposed during the party’s convention on
Saturday at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

In his speech, Soyinka said that the DFPF was founded in order
to transform the political landscape of Nigeria, warning that the
party would not admit disgruntled members from other parties.

He clarified that only those who cross carpet from the other
parties based on principle would be admitted into the Democratic
Front Party.

According to Soyinka, “The DFPF for now is disinterested in the
overall national scene. But after taking control in one state, one
Council, one ward, would begin to reach out through example to
others, gradually evolving a civic rule that governs and performs
through mutual collaboration’’