Buhari’s Government Cannot Unite Nigeria – Prof Soyinka Says

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BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has declared that owing to its systemic failure, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress Federal Government is not in a position to unite Nigerians as desired by the people.

Prof Soyinka specifically said that Nigeria has lost a key opportunity to unite, stressing that he does believe that the President Buhari-led government can unite Nigeria in any way since it is suffering from systemic failure.

He explained that we had a critical moment to unite the nation but lost it, adding that the moment when the country could have come together; and the sense of oneness, belonging, vision of oneness among other things have been lost.

Soyinka, who stated these in Abuja on Saturday at the book reading and signing of two of his books titled ‘Trumpism in Academe’ and ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth,’ pointedly said that no narrative would unite the people of Nigeria without restitution and justice.

Former governor of Imo State, who is presently the lawmaker representing Imo West Senatorial district, Senator Rochas Okorocha, had requested Prof Soyinka “if he could write a Nigerian story that would evoke patriotism and inspire unity among the various tribes in the country”.

Soyinka noted that people in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, who had lost their relatives and loved ones due to violence, cannot believe in unity, unless they get justice.

In the words of Soyinka; “There has been more than one moment and we lost the moment. Will another one come? I don’t know. Right now I don’t see it under this government, quite frankly.

“There is a failure, a systemic failure in present governance and I don’t know who can put it together. These days, I try to go some days without reading the newspapers. It is so depressing,” he said.

The Nobel Laureate however said that he personally believe that Nigeria should not break up but should remain as one entity.

Soyinka further said that in spite of his believe in one Nigeria, he holds the view that it is wrong for the government to continue to say the country’s unity was non-negotiable in the midst of injustice and lack of fairness.

 

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