But poverty and hunger dey very wicked. He, Soyinka cannot talk even if he is being killed by Buhari's hardship, after corruptly taken N82m from Amaechi. The money don form borne as well as cross bar for Soyinka's throat...

Aigbofa:
Really? The same thing he has been doing since he was in his twenties! Soyinka grew up but Nigeria refused to grow, whose fault?

Grew up into what pls? Are you saying he is no longer an activist?

Naijiant:

It's not about "fighting". It is about speaking out against evil.

Read the piece and stop criticising for the sake of it. Soyinka's sacrifices as a young man were acknowledged.

Why are you waiting on Wole Soyinka? He has created his path and why can't you be the next voice for others. Why can't you stand up like he did many years back. Do you have any idea of how it is quite challenging for an old man to do the same things he did in his youth. Once in a while, you may see or hear his thoughts on certain matters but you may just be the next this generation is waiting for...

theV0ice:
@OP, How many fights have you been involved in since you were born?

Soyinka tasted prison as a 28 year old fighting injustice in 1962. He went to prison again for 3 years because of Biafra in 1967. Countless brushes with the govts since then.

Where were you in 2010 when he, bakare, odumakin etc were trekking under the sun for Jonathan to be set free from Turai's cage?

Were you not on earth when he was televised advising buhari to convene an economic summit?

You want an 82 year old man to be fighting your battle? Are you not ashamed? You stay on internet ranting everyday and you stay waiting for a grand father to keep fighting for your future. A 23 year old Tunisian started the Arab spring, what are you waiting for?

The man has paid his dues pls. Let him enjoy the few years he has left abeg.

the truth they say is bitter and I must say the op nailed it hard. Why are you trying to divert the topic....... Or is it now a crime to say the truth bare as it is. Let's call a spade a spade, wale Soyinka has been gag by APC 82 million dinner that's why he has lost his voice and to crown it all,Bubu is just clueless, the true defination of an illiterate presido.

vislabraye:


Soyinka was vehement in his attack against Gej. At least it's expected that he should speak against the ills of this country today for CONSCIENCE sake. He was one of the reasons Gej was voted out. He gave Buhari his vote of confidence. 82 million was spent in hosting him. I guess his conscience has been bought.

He went against the Truth he stood for.

And the Truth he stood for is that no Northern of Fulani extraction means well for Nigeria.

Naijiant:

I want the same things Soyinka wanted as a young man - for good people to speak out against evil.

And have you spoken out not just on Nairaland?

Zico5:
I wonder if this op has conscience at all. Like a free minded person wole soyinka needs to watch and study this current situation very well. Not that he has nothing to say. He understands the calamity that 16 perilous years have done us and what wailers are expecting after sucking the nation dry. Buhari did not cause this current misfortune, rather he is in to clean a Longtime decay of our system and to set us on the glorious path.

The issue is beyond the economy. We are looking at the injustice suffered by the poor and defenseless. Innocent blood is being shed by the herdsmen. 300 in a community alone is not a small number. Soyinka is the same person that attacked Gej and called Patience shepopo.

As for me, I'm fairly comfortable with life. But when I think about others, I feel so sorry.

He must be full of regrets now but it's too late to turn around.


Lesson to all other sycophants all over the world.

thewarrior72:

Shame de catch for that old man who at the twilight of his life betrayed all he stood for just for a porrage of yam. Quite pathetic. Sometimes what matters in life isn't how well u started but how well u end. Our revered Soyinka is ending on a wrong footing..

yamfula:
But poverty and hunger dey very wicked. He, Soyinka cannot talk even if he is being killed by Buhari's hardship, after corruptly taken N82m from Amaechi. The money don form borne as well as cross bar for Soyinka's throat...

Even if your p man is deaf and dumb tell a reasonable elder in your village to also talk. Or are you all dumb in your place?

vislabraye:


Soyinka was vehement in his attack against Gej. At least it's expected that he should speak against the ills of this country today for CONSCIENCE sake. He was one of the reasons Gej was voted out. He gave Buhari his vote of confidence. 82 million was spent in hosting him. I guess his conscience has been bought.

He was also vehement in his attack against the cabal that held GEJ hostage. He didn't start speaking against GEJ until 2012, over 2 years after he fought to have him enthroned. How long has buhari spent?

How many fights have you done beyond ranting on NL? How many times did you condemn any.of the wrong moves of GEJ?

Malala was 15, Enahoro was 22, Soyinka was 28. you too get out into the public and get your voice out.

nku5:


Grew up into what pls? Are you saying he is no longer an activist?

I am saying he deserves to rest. He is a grand old man now, let younger Nigerians like the op and others on this thread pick up the gauntlet. Afterall, Soyinka was in his twenties when he started speaking up.

It is a shame that most of the ranters on this thread are about Soyinka's age when he started his activism, yet they still expect him at 85 to keep fighting for them.

lookingfly:
the truth they say is bitter and I must say the op nailed it hard. Why are you trying to divert the topic....... Or is it now a crime to say the truth bare as it is. Let's call a spade a spade, wale Soyinka has been gag by APC 82 million dinner that's why he has lost his voice and to crown it all,Bubu is just clueless, the true defination of an illiterate presido.

If APC's #82 million dinner was all it took to "gag" Soyinka, then he was playing the tune of his pay master all these yes, abi?

theV0ice:


How much did GEJ pay him for the suffering he endured under the sun fighting turai for Jonathan's sake?

Answer:

As a Nigeria, it is of his prerogative to carry out such fighting for the betterment of the country @ large, Perhaps his reward is coming from his maker.....

Are wailers even normal people or are they just evil degenerates with meaningless lives out to destroy everything good about this country. I think it's time Buhari starts tackling these evil barely literate nonentities hard. Your principals ran this country aground in sixteen years, you shameless prats. Educated people are not complaining about Buhari because they knew all along that the road would be long and arduous.You lot have no shame

lookingfly:
the truth they say is bitter and I must say the op nailed it hard. Why are you trying to divert the topic....... Or is it now a crime to say the truth bare as it is. Let's call a spade a spade, wale Soyinka has been gag by APC 82 million dinner that's why he has lost his voice and to crown it all,Bubu is just clueless, the true defination of an illiterate presido.

What has gagged your own mouth? 10mb from etisalat? Enahoro was 22 when he started fighting for Nigerian independence, what are you waiting for? He's been having dinners hosted by foreign presidents in his honour since the '70s. Amaechi's dinner is way too small.

Buhari is clueless Just like GEJ was an ineffectual buffoon, how many times did you speak out against GEJ?

Are you not old enough? Malala @ 15 was already tackling the Taliban, what are you waiting for?

naijagobetter:
whatever happens to continuety, you no get mouth? The man is old for christ sake allow him enjoy it in peace while it last, he has done his what about you and me?

He wasn't old last year when he was running his mouth against Patience Jonathan or when Amaechi spent millions on him during his birthday celebration, suddenly he has become Methuselah.

Ebubeslym:
He no get fuel to use on him Generator

He should use BIO-fuel like these guys o jare while we wait for Sai Baba to make fuel available



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lawbabs:


Why are you waiting on Wole Soyinka? He has created his path and why can't you be the next voice for others. Why can't you stand up like he did many years back. Do you have any idea of how it is quite challenging for an old man to do the same things he did in his youth. Once in a while, you may see or hear his thoughts on certain matters but you may just be the next this generation is waiting for...

Nigerians are funny. When Nnamdi Kanu fought the injustice, how many people support him. People looked at him and laughed. They left him to fight alone. The truth is that people like Soyinka have been compromised that's why he can't say much. At least he should speak for conscience sake.

The author of this article woefully fails to understand the primary goal of Wole Soyinka in his activist days.

It is to speak up against brutal dictatorship regimes or fight when he feels that ideals of democracy are about to be usurped.

15 million people made their voices known when they voted for Buhari in 2015. Seriously, you want Kongi to speak against that? That will be going against everything he fought for all his life.

Lack of fuel, economic hardship, riots in the North are not what Wole Soyinka fight against. His silence implies that he respects the people's will to elect a person who can solve their core challenges.

Kongi has been an activist long before many people's fathers were born. Frankly speaking, most of you are unworthy to hold a torch to his record. Calling him out at a ripe age of 82, when your grandmothers teeth have all fallen off, is not just bewildering. It shows lack of willingness to take responsibility by this generation. The very reason we are all heading off the cliff like sheep!

Mamog:


82 years old man who mortgage his children's future over a pot of porridge provided by the lizard of Ubima should speak out and apologise to his children for deceiving them into voting a tyrant if he has any integrity left.

I guess he also deceived us into voting for GEJ in the name of fresh air. I guess you're one of the children whose future was mortgaged? You've sold your future on the altar of ignorance and pettiness my dear.

Presidents have been hosting him before you could hold your weeny to pee. Common sense should tell you Amaechi and his dinner pale in comparison

Aigbofa:


I am saying he deserves to rest. He is a grand old man now, let younger Nigerians like the op and others on this thread pick up the gauntlet. Afterall, Soyinka was in his twenties when he started speaking up.

It is a shame that most of the ranters on this thread are about Soyinka's age when he started his activism, yet they still expect him at 85 to keep fighting for them.

He was consistently speaking up not long ago na. his sudden silence is fuelling rumours he has gone partisan

Babalegba:
Are wailers even normal people or are they just evil degenerates with meaningless lives out to destroy everything good about this country. I think it's time Buhari starts tackling these evil barely literate nonentities hard.

Misitah I-am-not-illiterate, don't you think that your only saviour has more serious problems to tackle







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Your principals ran this country aground in sixteen years, you shameless prats.

Is Ebola Owu who ruled ruined our country for 8 of the 16 years also one of your principal navigators

Obasanjo endorses APC moves, as party leadership visit Abeokuta
22.Dec 2013

The push by the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC to dislodge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP received a boost yesterday as former President Olusegun Obasanjo openly threw his weight behind the APC’s current initiatives.
The APC leadership, comprising some national leaders and governors visited him Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Saturday to solicit the former president’s support for the party in the forthcoming elections.
The party leaders, which started converging on Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion around 5:22pm, included former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s Interim National Chairman, Bisi Akande; former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari; former speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Masari; former Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff; Senator Osita Isunazor; Senator Bukola Saraki and Lai Mohammed.
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State came to the former president’s house in company with the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissioin, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; the former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and others in a convoy of three black jeeps.
Other APC governors at the meeting included Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulfattah Ahmed (Kwara), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo).
The Chairman of the New PDP, Kawu Baraje led some of his members and the former Kaduna State Chairman, Yero Makama, to the meeting.
Presenting the party chieftains and the APC governors to Obasanjo during the opening of the meeting, Akande said the party was in support of the former president’s 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan.
The APC National Leader, Tinubu who alluded to Obasanjo’s contribution to the building of the Nigerian nation, lamented that the country was divided more than ever.
Apparently referring to Obasanjo’s recent letter to Jonathan, he enjoined the former president not to shy away from speaking the truth.
Tinubu added that the APC had resolved to rescue Nigeria, appealing to Obasanjo to lead the mission.
“You’ve come out of tribulation and held the highest position in this country. We are here because of your courage. Nobody can say he has information more than you. You have surmounted a number of crises. Nigeria is divided more than before; to realise stable Nigeria, we want to encourage you to continue to speak the truth. We’re resolved and determined to rescue Nigeria. We want you as navigator,” he said.


Source: http://newmail-ng.com/new/obasanjo-endorses-apc-moves-as-party-leadership-visit-abeokuta/

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Obasanjo shared $74million Halliburton bribe, Okiro Panel says: • OBJ also pocketed another $5 million with PDP • Interim Panel report disappeared in Aso Rock
MAY 18, 2010

President Olusegun Obasanjo, who led Nigeria from 1999-2000, during which time he swore to fight corruption in the country, obtained considerable helpings of the infamous Haliburton bribe money, the Special Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared in an interim report.


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IVORY2009:


Answer:

As a Nigeria, it is of his prerogative to carry out such fighting for the betterment of the country @ large, Perhaps his reward is coming from his maker.....

Exactly.

Imagine some dunce saying APC paid Soyinka with a dinner??

Do you know how many.presidents have hosted him in this one life?

He fought for GEJ because it was the right thing to do. He spoke up for kanu and ipob too because his conscience told him to.

You didn't force him to fight for Biafra in 1967, why will any one cajole him now?

theV0ice:


What has gagged your own mouth? 10mb from etisalat? Enahoro was 22 when he started fighting for Nigerian independence, what are you waiting for?

Buhari is clueless Just like GEJ was an ineffectual buffoon, how many times did you speak out against GEJ?

Are you not old enough? Malala @ 15 was already tackling the Taliban, what are you waiting for?

Gej was clueless and yet we had electricity, prices of food was not high, fuel yapa, the economy was OK with alot of reserves. Etc please tell me what your baba go slow super clueless Bubu has done since he ascended the seat than cause chaos and pain to Nigerians? When soyinka was vigorously blaming Gej some months back, where we're you, now that it's time for him to tell the world how Bubu is incompetent, he's now deaf and dumb abi?

theV0ice:
How much did GEJ pay him for the suffering he endured under the sun fighting turai for Jonathan's sake?

I thought he was fighting for NIGERIA's sake and not for the sake of any particular individual.
Did I make a mistake

anonimi:


I thought he was fighting for NIGERIA's sake and not for the sake of any particular individual.
Did I make a mistake

No you didn't.

Any other observation?

lookingfly:
Gej was clueless and yet we had electricity, prices of food was not high, fuel yapa, the economy was OK with alot of reserves. Etc please tell me what your baba go slow super clueless Bubu has done since he ascended the seat than cause chaos and pain to Nigerians? When soyinka was vigorously blaming Gej some months back, where we're you, now that it's time for him to tell the world how Bubu is incompetent, he's now deaf and dumb abi?

GEJ also had the luxury of a robust fx reserve + $100/barrel oil. Did GEJ not leave fuel queue, no light and dwindling fx reserves for buhari?

Do you think that shouldn't count?

theV0ice:


Exactly.

Imagine some dunce saying APC paid Soyinka with a dinner??

Do you know how many.presidents have hosted him in this one life?

He fought for GEJ because it was the right thing to do. He spoke up for kanu and ipob too because his conscience told him to.

You didn't force him to fight for Biafra in 1967, why will any one cajole him now?

He is a Nobel Lauren, he is highly respected in any part of the world he choose to travel to, and he is not partisan.......

theV0ice:


I guess he also deceived us into voting for GEJ in the name of fresh air. I guess you're one of the children whose future was mortgaged? You've sold your future on the altar of ignorance and pettiness my dear.

Presidents have been hosting him before you could hold your weeny to pee. Common sense should tell you Amaechi and his dinner pale in comparison

Yes he campaign for GEJ an latter lambasted him.. he took to the street to register his disdain for fuel subsidy removal.. where was he when this Govt announced the removal of subsidy before bringing it on again?this Govt is subsiding fuel at 87 naira and we are buying at over 160. Where is he now when we are buying fuel at over 160 per litre even in Abuja? Falana is going to court to stop this government from taking more loans.
A man of integrity stands for what he believes at all times even if he doesn't favour him.
I ask again why is Prof Wole Soyinka silent? Has he suddenly gone dumb or sold his conscience and lost his voice to a pot of porridge?.

Some tribes are just useless in this country. Instead of swallowing shame and criticize bad governance they keep suffering and smiling because they bought fake change with their votes

Wole soyinka has played his own role op go and play yours

shameless man all cuz of money