₦airaland Forum

WisdomFlakes:
If you don't know the German equivalent of the BBC then you need some serious exposure bro, upgrade pls.

alfred5:
Interview with DW? And i ask APC which one is DW?

Can yuou please give up Yutube section of this interview?

APC, shame on you people!

Soyinka told DW that while he doesn't support the opposition's move to file criminal charges against the First Lady in the International Criminal Court, her comments should not go unchecked.

The Nigerian Nobel laureate for literature, Wole Soyinka, has expressed concerns in an interview with DW that the military could take power following presidential elections in Nigeria on March 28.

The 80-year-old writer, who has taken an active role in African politics for more than 50 years, says he fears there are "clear indications of a military intervention."

Soyinka told DW: "Ex military officers and security officers are trying to push aside the political contestants and use the unrest as an excuse to establish an interim government. The nature of the interim government wants to pretend it's not really a military intervention. A few political leaders, well-known civilians, want to give the veneer of civilian structure, but basically it’s a kind of political intervention."

The presidential election in Nigeria, Africa's strongest economy, was originally scheduled to take place in February before it was postponed by six weeks. The vote pits Christian incumbent Goodluck Jonathan against Muslim Muhammadu Buhari.

Soyinka says his country "is aspiring very hard to become a failed state." Speaking about the more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria a year ago, he expressed little hope that "the majority of them" will ever be found. Despite military gains made by troops from neighboring Cameroon, Niger and Chad, Soyinka believes there’s no chance of a rapid victory over the jihadist group. "It will take a generation at least to exterminate this phenomenon altogether. The military would not have had to cope with Boko Haram on this level if the proper action had been taken at the right time. This is the biggest the problem I have with the Jonathan government."

Soyinka also laments the increasingly aggressive direction the election campaign in Nigeria is taking. Recently, the president’s wife Patience Jonathan called on her husband’s followers to stone people who demanded a different leader. Political observers saw this as a call for violence against the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is campaigning on a platform of change.

Soyinka told DW that while he doesn't support the opposition's move to file criminal charges against the First Lady in the International Criminal Court, her comments should not go unchecked.

"What she said was totally unacceptable. I no longer regard her as the First Lady of Nigeria," he said.

baybeeboi:
none of the above.
Meanwhile GEJ till..........

Gbawe2:
Probably card reader

ebiagtales:
Card Reader

IVORY2009:
is this your other user name @ Paid poster?

LMAyedun:
Fool?
You need help.

barcanista:
Typin

IVORY2009:
@ paid poster, do you ever get tired?

berem:
Anti-terror rally in Lagos? What happened to Borno,Yobe and Adamawa?

I am fast loosing my respect for Joe Odumakin. She should avoid being bought over just like her sycophant husband.

But we did not stop at that; those that we knew that went, we called them to order and asked them why they went but they said they only collected dollars but they would not vote Jonathan.”

rusher14:
He's just a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Probably has a few hundred people he can directly influence and a lot more he could indirectly.

Nothing to worry about really.

Just little drops of water.

meforyou1:
Whether they postpone or not is immaterial. They should just not use card reader