https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3tRfz8SIUA

Hand dey shake, leg dey shake
Baba wey no well, e dey shout emi lokan
Emi lokan, emi lokan
Baba wey no well, e dey shout emi lokan

WOLE SOYINKA DISSOCIATES SELF FROM VIDEO:

My attention has been drawn to a video clip making internet rounds, of a dancing and chanting group, in red and white costume, purportedly members of the Pyrates Confraternity.

“The display acidly targets a presidential candidate in the awaited 2023 elections. Since the whole world knows of my connection with that fraternity, it is essential that I state in clear, unambiguous terms, that I am not involved in that public performance, nor in any way associated with the sentiments expressed in the songs. Like any other civic group, the Pyrates Confraternity is entitled to its freedom of expression, individually or collectively.

“So also is Wole Soyinka in his own person. I do not interfere in, nor do I attempt to dictate the partisan political choices of the Confraternity. I remain unaware that the association ever engages in a collective statement of sponsorship or repudiation of any candidate. This is clearly a new and bizarre development, fraught with unpredictable consequences.

“In addition, let me make the following cultural affirmation. I have listened to the lyrics of the chant intently and I am frankly appalled. I find it distasteful. I belong to a culture where we do not mock physical afflictions or disabilities. Very much the contrary. The Yoruba religion indeed designate a deity, Obatala, as the divine protector of the afflicted, no matter the nature of such affliction. This sensibility is engrained in us from childhood and remains with us all our lives. It operates on the principle of mortal frailty to which all humanity remains vulnerable.

“One of my favorite authors, about whom, by a coincidence, I had cause to write quite recently, was CLR James, author of The Black Jacobins, Beyond A Boundary etc. etc. I called him my ideological uncle. He suffered from Parkinson’s Disease, but remained alert, lucid and combative for decades after the onset of the disease. We interacted politically at the Tanzanian pan-African Congress, the Dakar Festival of Negro Arts and a number of other cultural and political fora. We met frequently in his lifetime, dined together in restaurants, despite his challenge. it would be unthinkable, and a desecration of his memory to be part of any activity that mocked his affliction.

“A further statement will be issued when I have made further enquiries into this strange, uncharacteristic outing of the association.”

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In the video, the Pyrates’ members, who are marking the 70th anniversary of the group this year, donned their traditional red and white attire, and sang a song about a presidential candidate whose “hands and feet are shaking, yet he is saying ‘it is my turn.’”

Ok

Ok

Tinubu is too old , sick and corrupt to be president

Mr. Soyinka is speaking too much grammer, the message has been sent already.

"You belong to a culture which do not mock physical affliction or disabilities" Tinubu won't find this statement funny, if eventually he sees it

He Supported them in kicking out Oga Jona.
After 7 years

Prof nah your handwork be this.
They are your children.

Now naija tertiary institutions and even secondary schools are full of cultists

Okay.

OBITUARY members trying to distract the innocent man....
The man of steel isn't moved, all weather man stands gidigbam
Vote for the most competent man In Nigeria
BOLA AHMED TINUBU
VOTE APC

Do they still listen to you?

But,,, they weren't lying na

Soyinka is one of those responsible for Nigeria's bad state today. Corrupted our youths with cultism

Even Babies now make mockery of the peepoo's Drug Baron. Tinubu never even see anything

The display acidly targets a presidential candidate in the awaited 2023 elections. Since the whole world knows of my connection with that fraternity, it is essential that I state in clear, unambiguous terms, that I am not involved in that public performance, nor in any way associated with the sentiments expressed in the songs.

Happy you admitted being one of them,no matter what,you can't disassociate yourself from them,nah your boys.

Lol, Wole Soyinka should not be perturbed, we understand it is the antics of the children of hate.

In life, you pay back your haters by winning. Before the APC primaries, they did more than this and yet Asiwaju in his nature of winning made them know why he is the Lion of Bourdillon.

How I wish INEC can conduct the election next month so all these IPOD terrorists degenerates will know why Tinubu is greater than Ojuku.

Nonsense and cultism!

But you called a illing first lady who travelled abroad to "rest in peace" from Nigeria wahala a shepopotamus

I just read this and I really cannot stop laughing. Is this below not true? Please let me know

Please let's support honourable Peter obi for the president's of federal Republic of Nigeria, we are tired of those thief's now,

Without a tribalism and nepotism any sane Nigerian know it's only someone like Peter obi that can now rescue Nigeria from total collapsing, but seriously some ethnic bigot people will just still prefer to hav their own man at the affairs of the country either he is capable or not than to go for what could have been the best solution to all nigerian's current problems, #ObiDatti2023 is certain

what is distasteful is tinubu planning to feed 5 million youths with agbado and cassava

That's what you get when you allow IPOB to hijack an organization or governance

Soyinka should seek God's forgiveness before it is late. He is one of those who corrupted our youths with cultism

Oga o... Open support of cultism... Imagine !!!! How then will this nation be clear of immorality and evil when even leaders are in support

Obediots

He just confirmed that tinubu has a disability

The stupid and useless ex Cultist bastard Wole Soyinka is spitting trash..
Animal..

so person wey him hand and leg dey shake no fit be president again in peace?
or is it because of the small piss wey him dey piss for body? Okay he will use pampers.

Nigerians please allow this man, it is HIS TURN.

Wole Soyinka did not write this. But come to think of it, was it not Wole Soyinka that called Jonathan's wife shepopotamus?

The evil that men pays, live after them