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I’m Glad Northerners Are Speaking Out Against Buhari Govt – Soyinka
Wole Soyinka, Nobel lauréate, has expressed delight at the stance taken by most northern elites concerning the state of the nation especially as it regards insecurity.
Speaking when he featured on Arise TV programme on Saturday, Soyinka charged state who are yet to launch their own security outfit to do so because of the troubling situation of the nation’s security.
Soyinka said “I am very glad that northern elites are now speaking out boldly and practically and at the same time all these states, I’d like them to come out, passing these message to those who have not yet launched their own Amotekun. If they don’t hurry, I will launch my own o.”
Ekohotblog gathered that the literary enigma also clarified his recent remarks that talking about President Muhammadu Buhari robs off negatively on his health.
Soyinka noted that the remark was spurred by need for national awakening, noting that the statement was an admonition to Nigerians to brace up and take responsibility for their own survival.
“I can tell you exactly what I meant by that. I meant that we citizens have got to take a very good look at huge gap in governance, the lacuna in governance in this nation, and then take responsibility for their own survival,” he said.
“This is what makes our own responsibilities for ourselves as citizens even more difficult because when drama like that happens we go to the very heart of our existence as human beings to see our children have been swept up not for the first time and we cannot have a clear sequence of events articulated by the security agencies, by the government so that we can even take on our own against such events happening in the nation.
Soyinka, who described Nigeria as a struggling contraption, said the territorial integrity of the country has been corroded as sovereignty of the nation has been taken over by murdering herdsmen and rampaging Boko Haram.
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