Popular Novelist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has distanced himself from comments in the public space over recent defections rocking Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said in a terse statement that comments on the issue attributed to him were pure imaginations of their authors and urged Nigerians to ignore such and treat it as another case of identity theft.
The poet and essayist in the English language, whose statement was signed by his spokesman, Abiola Owoaje, categorically denied making comments on any political party for years now.
According to the statement; “Here we go again! Treat as yet another case of Identity Theft. I have made no statement whatsoever on party defections or indeed on any political party fortunes or misfortunes in the past three to four years.
“Once again, I urge Nigerians to have the courage of their convictions and stop acting like the contemptible cowards and opportunistic hustlers that infest the social media.”
Born Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
