Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said he did not represent any international intervention group when he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on August 10.

He also appealed to the Federal Government “to respond positively to the outrage of the militants of Niger Delta.”

Soyinka, who said some of the groups in the Niger Delta region drew him into his current interventionist role, faulted media reports (RAW GLOBAL NEWS not included) that he met with the President to mediate on the crisis in the region as part of an international intervention group.

Stating that he was contacted personally to help in mediating in the matter, the revered playwright said he spoke in his capacity as Wole Soyinka and not on behalf of a non-existing ‘international intervention group.’

The essayist and social critic noted that he promised to later address the press when State House correspondents ambushed him after his visit to the President.

He, however, refused to speak about what he discussed at the meeting among other issues on Thursday.

Soyinka said, “It is bad enough to distort statements and issues. My demand of the media is accuracy. I cannot spend my time correcting falsehood. I am not part of any international intervention group. What kind of intervention? How can a non-existing group contact the President? I know of no international intervention group in existence. There can be no extrapolation, no second guessing…’’

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