Prof. Wole Soyinka Denies Eulogizing Tinubu, Saying the Tribute was Concocted

Multi award winning Nigerian playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka has denied a report attributed to him extolling the virtues of a former governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu.The recent online report had quoted the Nobel laureate as admiring the former governor's maturity and political sacrifice for'saving Nigeria from the danger of falling into one party state.

'"Tinubu has the option of joining the PDP elites to hold us hostage for another decade but he gave his all to the masses to dethrone the elites."Political juveniles believed that APC won because of the votes from the North. No!!!, APC's victory was cemented the day Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu resolved to work together,"the false report had said.In a counter statement on Thursday, Nov. 26, obtained by Premium Times, Soyinka refuted the entire report, saying he is not in any way connected to the comment, noting that it is apparently the workof impersonators.

"It is difficult to prescribe for the sort of mind that finds itself so inadequate that it must foist its opinions on others, and with such confident sense of impunity. Kindly assist me in letting the public know that I am not in anyway connected with the publication that has just been forwarded to me.

"I can only yet again recommend my recent 'occasional' publication – The Republic of Liars – to the public as a cautionary tract, while the growing population of victims await the routine descent of the full operational wrath of Internet policing on all impudent impersonators,"Mr. Soyinka said.