Soyinka Warns Buhari’s Government Over Charges Against Sowore

– Nobel Laureate, Professor warns President Muhammadu Buhari’ s Government over charges of treason filed against omoyele Sowore

– The Sowore affair has moved beyond harassment and taken on a sinister direction

– I do not believe that the Justice department itself believes in these improbable charges

 

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari following the charges of treason filed against the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore.

The Federal Government on Friday, filed seven counts of treasonable felony and money laundering against Sowore.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Soyinka said that the nation had failed to learn from its past experiences.

“This is utterly depressing news. So, the Sowore affair has moved beyond harassment and taken on a sinister direction.

“Outside the country where I happened to be engaged at the moment, I can testify that the immediate reaction around me was to dismiss this as yet another grotesque product of fake news, of which Nigerians have become the greatest practitioners.

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“Further checks have however confirmed that this government has indeed attained an unprecedented level of paranoia. I do not believe that the Justice department itself believes in these improbable charges, as formally publicised.

“So, once again, we inscribe in our annals another season of treasonable felony, History still guards some lessons we are yet to digest, much less from which to learn,” Soyinka said.