Buhari-led Government Involved In Rampant Administrative Chaos, Mis-governance – Soyinka

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of carrying out rampant acts of mis-governance and administrative chaos.

Soyinka, who stated on Thursday at the official launch of his Interventions VIII series with the title; “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who keeps watch over the watchmen?), Gani’s Unfinished Business,” at the Freedom Park, Lagos, said there is cheapening of human lives, saying; “The value of lives in the last year or so on is on a level we haven’t witnessed in the country for long time.”

He particularly said that there are unforced errors and acts that are considered being stupid; failure to secure lives; languages of self-excusing, which were condemned in the past but which he noted are resurfacing all over the place.

The Nobel Laureate therefore called for the election of a new generation of leaders to overhaul the system.

Commenting on the defection of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State from the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof Soyinka said the governor has every right to choose a political party he wants to belong for which no one should crucify.

Soyinka, who read a copy of the letter he wrote to Governor Ortom, said his position is clear on the challenges facing Benue State, adding that as the leader of a state that experienced attacks, Ortom has right to seek the promise of an alternative means of security for his people as they remain his primary responsibility.

He specifically condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for investigating Ortom at over some allegations at this point in time.

“The governor left the APC due to the many problems facing the country. Due to the crisis in the country, someone defected and then the EFCC started chasing him. Does that look like a coincidence or what?” Soyinka wondered.

He further said; “We are all free over the actual choice of an alternative destination but no one can deny the inalienable entitlement to such action, especially when they are provoked by disillusionment and sense of impotence under existing association.”