Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address on Sunday failed to address the attacks on #EndBadGovernance protesters by the police and security agencies.
Soyinka made the observation in a statement on Sunday following Tinubu’s address to the nation.
His words partly reads, “I set my alarm clock for this morning to ensure that I did not miss President Bola Tinubu’s impatiently awaited address to the nation on the current unrest across the nation.
“His outline of government’s remedial action since inception, aimed at warding off just such an outbreak, will undoubtedly receive expert and sustained attention both for effectiveness and in content analysis.
“My primary concern, quite predictably, is the continuing deterioration of the state’s seizure of protest management, an area in which the presidential address fell conspicuously short.
“Such short-changing of civic deserving, regrettably, goes to arm the security forces in the exercise of impunity and condemns the nation to a seemingly unbreakable cycle of resentment and reprisals.”
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Meanwhile, his long speech did not sink well as Nigerians described his address as a hypocrisy one.
Recall that Nigerians have longed for the input of Soyinka over Tinubu’s bad government but got none.
His sudden comment over Tinubu’s speech has further pushed Nigerians on X to give Soyinka a piece of their mind.
sir_Justine wrote, “Hyp0cr!t£…Does he think we cannot see through his little gimmick? He is one of them…and when revolution comes, the part he has played twice k££l our dreams won’t be forgotten.”
D’sagacious tweeted, “This man supposed to be our Nelson Mandela but reverse is the case. “
Another X user, Digital Marketing Expert wrote, “Is this not the same Wole Soyinka that supported and endorsed Tinubu ? I laugh in Chinese.”
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