Obasanjo Is An Economic Illiterate And Liar Who Deserves No Respect – Soyinka
Nigeria’s
former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been labeled an
indescribable liar, who deserves no respect by Nobel laureate, Prof.
Wole Soyinka.
The two elder citizens have a long history of squabbles and public
disagreements, but on Friday night, when he was responding to questions
during a programme tagged: ‘An evening with Wole Soyinka’, organised by
Globacom, the Nobel Laureate said whatever comes out of Obasanjo’s mouth
should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Asked to respond to Obasanjo’s assessment of him in the former
president’s three-volume autobiography ‘My Watch’, where he notes that
Soyinka is a good hunter and connoisseur of wines but a political
illiterate, the Nobel Laureate said he was hardly bothered because those
were the opinions of a liar.
Soyinka said, “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’
“I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was
once described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as an
economic illiterate. They nearly ‘went into blow’ that night. It was
Prof. Mabogunje who separated them.
“So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate, no problem at all.
“In ‘My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he deplored
lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an unconstitutional
third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word to describe him
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