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Sportsmatter:
My point is that he didn't change. Tinubu might be his very close friend and this won't allow him say certain things about his administration in public.

Let's be honest with ourselves. If your best friend holds a powerful position in the country, will you come online to always call him out? Rather you will meet him indoor to talk things through.

Sportsmatter:
But he called out OBJ then. OBJ is also a Yoruba man.

Sportsmatter:
Obi is a politician and he has been seen with the president and other APC members laughing and having great time.

Despite the fact that you see Atiku as corrupt and power drunk, Peter Obi will still answer when he calls. You know why? Atiku was his boss and they have a personal relationship.

Does that make Obi corrupt and power drunk?

Sportsmatter:
I don't need to read anything that is from a one-sided source. Give me a genuine and reputable source.

Again, did Wole Soyinka say no Igbo will ever rule Nigeria? It's looking like people are attacking prof because of what others are doing lol.

Sportsmatter:
He went to steal an award that was meant for him? As how na? No need being emotional about this.

Imagine you have a chance to come collect 100M naira but because of the happenings in Benue state, people are telling you not to go.

After giving it a thorough thought and you decided what was best for you. Is that stealing?

Mind you, He is 90 years plus, still strong and healthy.

Sportsmatter:
I've seen certain people throw insults at Prof Soyinka and calling him a tribalist simply because he supported Bola Tinubu who happens to be from the same tribe with him.

Yes, you can call him out for maybe supporting the present government (because of the hardship citizens are currently facing) but tarnishing his image by calling him a tribalist is callous.

Have you suddenly forgotten his role during the Biafran (civil) war? He was even jailed for this oo. I don't think he supported the OBJ regime (another Yoruba president).

Yes, he may be supporting Tinubu because of their long standing relationship. All of you hypocrites will also support your long time friend and brother for any position even if you know he is a fraud.

Call him out for that and stop calling him a tribalist or even saying he's doing this because of money.

That's even a very ridiculous thing to say. Someone didn't support any government for money when he was much younger and needed money for flexing and stuff, it's now that he's already old and has no real use for material things that he will do that for money?

Common, y'all should do better with the name calling.

SeeWahala:
Soyinka backstabbed all well meaning Nigerians when he went to receive that novel[i ]NOBEL[/i] prize after agreeing to boycott the ceremony due to the happenings at the time.

Everyone ekse ELSE stayed back but he alone sneaked off to steal the prize just as his kinfolk are known to do till this very day.

2faced and backstabbing turncoats never end well in life

SeeWahala:
Soyinka backstabbed all well meaning Nigerians when he went to receive that novel prize after agreeing to boycott the ceremony due to the happenings at the time.

Everyone ekse stayed back but he alone sneaked off to steal the prize just as his kinfolk are known to do till this very day.

2faced and backstabbing turncoats never end well in life

zero8zero:
But same Patience Jonathan called Northerners " born throway" and her husband called OBJ a motor park tout.

And your exaggeration about the economy is very laughable, at a time GEJ was borrowing to pay workers salaries and Okonjo Iweala warned Nigerians to brace up for tough times ahead.

Indeed, Nigerians have a short memory

Sportsmatter:
How does this make him a tribalist? You can call him out for supporting a wrong government.

Till now, I'm yet to see a saint of a politician

aribisala0:
He is telling a blatant lie that he just made up

When you respond to such people you must be totally uncompromising

They are totally dishonest in their DNA and can lie without compunction.



That really is what this thread is about ,
They are bitter that Achebe was not good enough to win the Nobel Prize and Achebe himself was very bitter too

Since Soyinka won he opened the gates and several other Africans have also won the Nobel Prize but Achebe writings on village wresting and New Yam Festivals was considered inadequate

nairalanda1:
Achebe is as good as Soyinka. Soyinka deserved his price, but Achebe deserved the 2000 prize...someone who has been published in several languages, and can tell an engaging story like Soyinka....yet he lost to a obscure chinese author.

aribisala0:
He is telling a blatant lie that he just made up

When you respond to such people you must be totally uncompromising

They are totally dishonest in their DNA and can lie without compunction.



That really is what this thread is about ,
They are bitter that Achebe was not good enough to win the Nobel Prize and Achebe himself was very bitter too

Since Soyinka won he opened the gates and several other Africans have also won the Nobel Prize but Achebe writings on village wresting and New Yam Festivals was considered inadequate

Alaigbo:
Ojuwku kinsmen never cease to amuse, they'll demand what they can not give. They want Soyinka sidekined for supportting Tinubu but rejoiced when Ojukwu demand MKO Abiola should be hanged because he won the freest democratic elecrion in the history of Nigeria.

This obidient ipob apologist claim to care about Nigeria yet rejoice at every misfortune on Nigeria. They are sad because Nigeria chose Tinubu over their pandora criminal Peter Obi who was caught looting N250 million from state house to his warehouse in Lagos. Do not waste your time on them. Their rant will not stop Tinubu 8 years as president no matter how loud they wail.

SeeWahala:
The only thing constant in life is change.
People change.
Wole has changed.
He is now a tried & true BIGOT who is a sucker for new roads
Plus the FATHER & ORIGINATOR OF NIGERIAN CULTISM aspect . . . Well, he hasn't changed much in that regard 😏

OkayDaddy:
Which Achebe?

Achebe is a storyteller, not a literary genius.
He told his stories just how the white colonialists saw Africa. That's why he never won a Nobel.

Go check out Soyinka's books. They open your brain and blockheads can't understand them. There's his book, The Interpreters. Mad book. If you read without eating, you can run mad.

Literature has Prose Poetry and drama. How did Achebe fare in poetry and drama?
Yet you are comparing him to Soyinka.

nairalanda1:
Oga, I am not here to play your Igbo vs Yoruba tribal games.

Better grow out of this tribalism. IN my life, a lot of people who have been good to me, a guy from a minority tribe, have been Igbos and Yorubas.

If you want to waste your life on online bigotry, continue.

I still stand by what I said, and I read both writers and many more.