Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has recounted a conversation he had with president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu when both men met to discuss the future of Nigeria....CONTINUE READING
Soyinka in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, April said that the former Lagos State governor refused to take his advice to step aside for a much younger and more energetic candidate when they met…..CONTINUE READING
According to the elder statesman, he explicitly told Tinubu that he wasn’t going t0 support him in his presidential bid. Soyinka said that he had said the same thing to Atiku Abubakar prior to speaking to Tinubu.
“I then sort out the current president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and I gave him the same message. I said that whatever you people are planning, I remain convinced that we need a young generation of new thinking, new sensibilities, new energies. So why don’t you leave the stage?”
“Let us look for someone who is really brilliant and you use your massive influence to support this person and this country will see a massive transformation. We spoke for about an hour and half but he said no. He felt there was still things he could contribute.”
I spoke to Tinubu for almost two hours about leaving the political stage but he refused – Soyinka…..CONTINUE READING
